As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).
Yep. The trajectory is most often:
- progressive social change
- cishet conservative anxiety over privilege loss
- rising authoritarians promise return to golden age,
- simplify complex social issues into us/them scapegoating,
- insist on suspension of democratic norms to eliminate threat
I'm going to need some proof for this one.
Hitler's rise was not predicated by progressive social change.
Quite the opposite, it happened in the wake of Germany's impoverishment by the debts imposed in the treaty of Versailles.
Alright, that's part of historical record that German women gained the right to vote in 1919 but that was part of a global suffrage movement giving women the right to vote in many countries globally.
That would not be a factor unique to Germany.
