Don't get used to it - it's what autocracies rely on -- Christina Pagel

[erronis]

https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/dont-get-used-to-it-its-what-autocracies

Humans are both adaptable and resilient - but it would be dangerous to get used to the Trump administration

It’s not even been 100 days since President Trump was inaugurated and my spreadsheet is approaching 250 authoritarian-like actions. The administration is moving forwards with trade wars, dismantling the federal government, defunding key health and environmental programmes, shipping off immigrants to foreign jails with no due process, deporting students, attacking universities, law firms and media companies, and undermining the international world order that the US led in establishing 75 years ago. I’ve probably missed out another equally long list of actions that I can’t remember off the top of my head.

It’s exhausting. But it’s also incrementally less and less shocking. And this combination is dangerous - the more we switch off and the more we have to work harder to remember that none of this is normal, the harder it is to fight back.
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Adaptation is not always helpful
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Tolerating the intolerable
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We must not forget that none of this is normal
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[chia]

1. Her spreadsheet is here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1o70RYPmJftRiCDUWva0TC36FiZVTw1IaVPIeAHTYcHA/edit?gid=1529511822#gid=1529511822