How to Lose a Country : The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran

?_TThis is essential?_T Margaret Atwood on Twitter ?_~She's one of the most acute and perceptive analysts of the furtive growth of fascism. Everyone should know about this?_T Philip Pullman ?_TVibrates with outrage?_T The Times ?_~It couldn?_Tt happen here?_T Ece Temelkuran heard reasonable people in Britain say it the night of the Brexit vote. She heard reasonable people in America say it the night Trump?_Ts election was soundtracked by chants of ?_~Build that wall.?_T She heard reasonable people in Turkey say it as Erdo?Yan rigged elections, rebuilt the economy around cronyism, and labelled his opposition as terrorists. How to Lose a Country is an impassioned plea, a warning to the world that populism and nationalism don?_Tt march fully-formed into government; they creep. Award winning author and journalist Ece Temelkuran, identifies the early-warning signs of this phenomenon, sprouting up across the world from Eastern Europe to South America, in order to define a global pattern, and arm the reader with the tools to root it out. Proposing alternative, global answers to the pressing ?_" and too often paralysing ?_" poltical questions of our time, Temelkuran explores the insidious idea of ?_~real people?_T, the infantilisation of language and debate, the way laughter can prove a false friend, and the dangers of underestimating one?_Ts opponent. She weaves memoir, history and clear-sighted argument into an urgent and eloquent defence of democracy. No longer can the reasonable comfort themselves with ?_~it couldn?_Tt happen here.?_T It is happening. And soon it may be too late.
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