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Excerpts from “Resisting the Right”
What I wrote last summer, and hoped would not be needed.
As there are a number of new subscribers to this blog, I would — shamelessly — like to call attention to my book Resisting the Right: How to Survive the Gathering Storm, a guide to how to confront a second Trump administration and the rise of right wing authoritarianism in the United States, published by OR Books here in New York last July (four months before the election, I hasten to add).
The intent of that book, drawing on my experience as a military intelligence officer, was to look “over the horizon” as they say at the Pentagon, and contemplate the worst case scenario so that we could be prepared should it befall us. I was hoping the book would prove unnecessary and wind up on a high shelf, to be retrieved only in some far off, break-glass-in-case-of-emergency dystopian future.
Sadly, to paraphrase the late George Allen, that future is now.
While the book contemplated the full range of outcomes following the 2024 election and offered contingencies across that whole spectrum, its most pertinent parts have proven to be its assessment of the autocratic threat and prescriptions for how to combat it in its most pernicious form. What follows are two key excerpts from the book. If you find the material of value, I encourage you to buy a copy: either…
