Of Bookish Things<p>Professor <a href="https://c.im/tags/BarbaraFWalter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BarbaraFWalter</span></a>, a renowned expert on <a href="https://c.im/tags/CivilWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilWars</span></a> around the world, warns that the <a href="https://c.im/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> meets key criteria for nations heading toward major <a href="https://c.im/tags/PoliticalViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalViolence</span></a>. We ignore the warning signs at our own peril, according to the <a href="https://c.im/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> of <a href="https://c.im/tags/HowCivilWarsStartAndHowToStopThem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HowCivilWarsStartAndHowToStopThem</span></a>. <a href="https://c.im/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> shows that the fight to save <a href="https://c.im/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> will have to come from the bottom up, Walter says. “Protest and peaceful resistance works,” she adds. “Don't voluntarily comply with orders that are illegal. Don't help <a href="https://c.im/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> implement his agenda–don’t preemptively comply.”<br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Anocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anocracy</span></a> - Anocracy, or semi-democracy, is a form of government that is loosely defined as part democracy and part <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dictatorship</span></a>, or as a "regime that mixes democratic with autocratic features". Another definition classifies anocracy as "a regime that permits some means of participation through opposition group behaviour, but that has incomplete development of mechanisms to redress grievances."</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/CivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilWar</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TrumpRegime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpRegime</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TrumpCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpCoup</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DemocracyVsAutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DemocracyVsAutocracy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Autocracy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6TLoj6lQC4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=u6TLoj6lQC</span><span class="invisible">4</span></a></p>