2024-11-18
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This is the Opinions, a show that brings you a mix of voices from New York Times opinion.
You've heard the news.
Here's what to make of it.
I'm EM Gessen.
I'm an opinion columnist with the New York Times.
In 2016, when Trump was first elected, right after the election results started coming in, friends and acquaintances started texting me asking, what do we do now?
Partly, I think, because I had been convinced that Trump would win, and partly because I have spent most of my life living in Russia.
And so they thought I had some wisdom to share on living in an autocracy.
And my first response was, well, obviously I'm living in exile.
I don't know how to deal with this.
But my second response was, actually, you're right, I do know a few things.
So I ended up writing an essay called Rules for Survival, which I think has held up pretty well and established me as an autocracy expert.
For years, I have been heavily relying and thirstily following the work of Baland Magyar, who is a Hungarian sociologist.
He was a dissident academic during the Soviet period.
And then once Viktor Orban became the autocrat in Hungary, became a scholar of post communist autocracy.