Trump Quotes by Timothy D. Snyder

9 Trump quotes by Timothy D. Snyder

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Timothy D. Snyder offers a scholarly lens on Trump across nine brief quotations. While the collection is small, each piece hints at his historical perspective, making it a useful primer for those curious about his analysis.

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In rhetoric and action, the Trump administration has aggrandized 'radical Islamic terror,' thus making what Madison called a 'favorable emergency' more likely.

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The minor choices we make are themselves a kind of vote. Our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.

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Mr. Trump is primarily a television personality. As such, he is judged by that standard. This means that a scandal does not…

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Trump bankrupted six companies but succeeded on the biggest of stages. He is the champion of failures.

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What we ended up with, from Bill Clinton onward, is a status quo party and an 'undo the system' party, where the…

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It is unclear how much money Trump has, but it is not enough to matter in Russia. If he keeps up his…

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Trump's Twitter flood of late-night mendacity is an unhindered celebration of fragile manhood, a ceaseless summons to the millions for affirmation, a…

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I think, whatever ideological coloration we think actually applies to Trump, we can be pretty confident that he sees the American state…

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Interestingly, a number of the people I know - probably you do, too - who predicted that Trump would win were precisely…

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Defend an institution. Follow the courts or the media, or a court or a newspaper. Do not speak of 'our institutions' unless you are…

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Courage does not mean not fearing or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management right away, from the moment of the…

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I thought I was going to grow up and become a diplomat and negotiate nuclear arms.

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Mr. Trump is primarily a television personality. As such, he is judged by that standard. This means that a scandal does not call forth…

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We think about democracy, and that's the word that Americans love to use, 'democracy,' and that's how we characterize our system. But if democracy…

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Most Americans are exceptionalists; we think we live outside of history.

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Every day you don't do something, it makes it less likely that you will ever do something. So you've got to get started right…

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Anticipatory obedience teaches authorities what is possible and accelerates unfreedom.

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To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle.

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In the descent from a world of factual discourse into a world of emotions and alternative realities, the first step you take, whether you're…

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Maybe I am naive, but I don't think talking about the Holocaust with total and complete cynicism is possible for Israeli politicians. It's inevitable…

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There's a basic problem with the history of the Holocaust. The people who do it don't know the necessary languages.

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