How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship Audiobook (Free)

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‘Vibrates with outrage’ THE DAYS

‘It couldn’t happen right here’

Ece Temelkuran heard reasonable people in Britain say it the night time of the Brexit vote.

She heard reasonable people in America say it the night Trump’s election was soundtracked by about how exactly to reduce a Nation: The 7 Techniques from Democracy to Dictatorship chants of ‘Build that wall.’

She heard reasonable people in Turkey say it as Erdo?an rigged elections, rebuilt the economy around cronyism, and labelled his opposition as terrorists.

How exactly to Lose a Nation is an impassioned plea, a caution towards the globe that populism and nationalism don’t march fully-formed into authorities; they creep. Award winning author and journalist Ece Temelkuran identifies the early-warning indicators of this sensation, sprouting up across the world, to be able to define a worldwide pattern, and arm the reader with the various tools to main it out.

Proposing alternative, global answers to the pressing – and all too often paralysing – political issues of our period, Temelkuran explores the insidious idea of ‘real people’, the infantilisation of language and issue, just how laughter can demonstrate a false friend, as well as the dangers of underestimating one’s opponent. She weaves memoir, history and clear-sighted argument into an immediate and eloquent defence of democracy.

No longer can the reasonable ease and comfort themselves with ‘it couldn’t happen here.’ It is taking place. And soon it might be too late.