obedience

Timothy Snyder calls this "anticipatory obedience."

As historian Timothy Snyder has been saying loud and clear, this is nothing but “obedience in advance,” giving up our power to an authoritarian that he needs to take control.

An overarching theme here is that the moves by the Post and the LA Times reflect what Timothy Snyder, the author of “On Tyranny,” calls “anticipatory obedience.”

Trump also reportedly wished that he could emulate Hitler in commanding total obedience from the military.

On the same day as Kelly’s interview was published in The Times, The Atlantic dropped a bombshell report that includes anecdotes of Trump getting frustrated with the military’s lack of blind obedience during his time as president.