se, it s a survivor s guide. the new york times advised approaching it like a medical pamphlet on an infectious disease. quote, read it carefully and be on the lookout for symptoms. let me show you a little bit of what they mean. case in point, lesson number two, defend institutions. it is sthugsz help us to preserve decency. they fall one after the other unless each is defended from the beginning. so choose an institution you care about a court, a law, a labor union, and take its side. this is from lesson 14. establish a private life. nastier rulers will use what they know about you to push your you around. scrub your computer of malware on a regular basis. have personal exchanges in person. for the same reason, resolve any legal trouble. try not to have hooks. i ll give you one more from lesson 5. this has been stuck into me like
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else. is this man above the law or not, or are we all subject to the rule of law? that s what s fundamentally at stake right now. as the house pursues impeachment, is there a way to do that in a way that is maximally bolstering of the rule of law in a long-standing way? i think there is. i think it s important to enunciate what the principles of what we re doing are all the time. i realize for political reasons it makes sense to focus on this ukraine issue because basically the president confessed to it. caught and then admitted it and then proved that he did it. yeah. if you confess in the back of a squad car, you re innocent. but that s not how it works. i understand the temptation because the whistle-blower report tells you everything you need to do. but i do think it s important to remember this is in a larger context of a whole series of things which show score and for the idea of law. that story that just broke today telling the russians that it s okay to interfere in our
is going sour happened already in russia. a lot of things that the russians are doing to us involve just kind of jollying us along. when we think of mr. trump saying, well, yeah, of course interfering with special elections okay, everybody does it, that s exactly the line which russia is trying to push. there aren t facts, there s not law, there s not justice. everything s really a joke. only power matters. what we re seeing today is how this fits together. it s not just that russia helped mr. trump to get elected, there s a certain russian way of doing politics has spread widely. is the idea that there s no reason for russia to be held to account for bad behavior because there is no such thing as good behavior, there is no moral leadership in the world or moral expectation in terms of how countries should behave, and the u.s. as the world s policeman, we were obviously a number one target for them on that, but that s basically how they sold their international standing for
large example of this notion that there isn t law, it s just a joke, you do it, we do it, everybody does it, therefore, it s okay. if that s your idea, you re going to have oligarchy and authoritarianism. you have to have some notion of principle. you got to have it. titanium snyder, best-selling author, thank you for coming to the studio. thank you. we ll be right back, stay with us. with us. announcer: ride the totally realistic traffic jam. beep, beep, beep, beep children: traffic jam! announcer: and the world s first never bump bumper cars. children: never bump! announcer: it s a real savings hootenanny with options that fit your budget. that s fun for the whole family. announcer: only at progressive par. maybe an insurance park was a bad idea. yeah. yep. red lobster s endless shrimp is back for just $15.99. get all the shrimp you want, any way you want em.