Week 9 - The Return

Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you, so you’ll remember.

Before we get into this week’s themes, I wanted to stop and take in the enormity and gravity of something that up until Trump was very ordinary: the peaceful transition of power. This week, Vice President Kamala Harris presided over the certification of an election she lost. There is no doubt that if the result of the election had been different, things…