Also here is a link to the book mentioned, which I co-edited with my SDU colleagues Anders Engberg-Pedersen and Martin Mennecke www.routledge.com/Ending-War-A...

Instead, give them instruments to understand how they can help the judges and local authorities that are already defending your democratic institutions. there’s plenty of research on non-violent resistance to draw from, for example by @chenoweth.bsky.social and colleagues.

This is where good journalism has an advantage over scientific analysis: you can make autocracy real to your target audience before risks materialize; 3) don’t stop at scaring your audience. There’s nothing worse than making warnees feel powerless.

2) what is a stake for you, all of you, including trump’s voters. Including the Schumers. I suspect many Americans might not fully realize what it means to live under the power of an autocrat. Give detailed examples of how their life would get transformed in tragic and yet mundane ways.

There’s unfortunately plenty of historical and contemporary cases to draw on for comparison, but Americans might believe their institutions are stronger than, say, Turkey’s so I’m not so sure these comparisons help. Just focus on how things might look like in 6 months if Trump is not contained;

My research shows legacy media like @nytimes.com can produce persuasive warnings affecting policy makers and broader public: you need to step up! You need to explain: 1) What is happening in very specific and unambiguous terms: your democracy is dying and you are becoming an electoral autocracy

“They perform omnipotence so convincingly that only when they fall do we see how brittle their power truly was.”

As a recent SIPRI report shows, the US accounts for 43% of global arms exports, with Europeans as their top customer over the past five years. That market’s about to tank faster than Tesla sales. www.euractiv.com/section/defe...