The academic community has long been urging us to realize that although this threat sounds surreal, it is in fact, all too real Our greatest intellectual Achilles heel is that we tend not to believe something that hasn’t happened to us.
Most people reading this have never lived under authoritarianism. We just can’t imagine it and so we disbelieve this threat, in spite of the abundance of cold hard evidence, and the abundance of academics and other experts who have been warning us about Trump’s authoritarian take-over for years.
Ultimately, it is not Trump that puts us at grave risk: It is our lack of imagination to comprehend the danger ahead of us that he presents.