Instead of a fact-based system, says @TimothyDSnyder, "you have a personality who makes up his own reality...At first, that reality is just confusing... but after a while, the leader starts to draw people into that reality by making them defend it"

Instead of a fact-based system, says @TimothyDSnyder, "you have a personality who makes up his own reality...At first, that reality is just confusing... but after a while, the leader starts to draw people into that reality by making them defend it"https://t.co/TUu6goMZAU

— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) October 2, 2019