People who have opinions which are in fact absolutely evil are supported by this kind of relativism. "On the one hand and on the other hand" is a way to destroy values and virtues, because if the leader of the country does not have a firm opinion about good and evil then it becomes very hard for other people to have firm opinions about good and evil. It also works by the things he doesn't say and the things he doesn't condemn.
For example, the outrageous things he says about the press and his obsession with violence. I think the most predictable thing, because it does not have to do with legislation, was the moral effect that his presence would have. Several months later, Snyder said this about the precarious state of the rule of law under Trump: It makes me sad to think how Americans would behave at that point. Once you get past a certain threshold, it starts to depend more on them than on us, and then things are much, much worse. It's going to depend more on us than on them in the meantime. In January 2018 we will probably have a pretty good idea which way this thing is going. It's three years on the outside, but in more likelihood something like a year. Nobody can be sure how long this particular regime change with Trump will take, but there is a clock, and the clock really is ticking. In May of 2017, he speculated on how quickly American democracy could begin to crumble in the face of this assault: In a series of conversations at Salon, Snyder has repeatedly warned and predicted how Donald Trump's regime, the Republican Party and their ascendant neofascist movement would threaten the foundations and future of American democracy. Snyder, a professor at Yale, is the author of the bestselling books " On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century," " The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America" and " Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary." His new book is " On Tyranny Graphic Edition," an adaptation of his 2017 bestseller illustrated by Nora Krug. In his books, essays and public scholarship, historian Timothy Snyder has been conducting a master class on authoritarianism, neofascism, and the existential threat that Donald Trump and his movement represent to America's multiracial democracy.
One reason historians study the past is to better understand the present.
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