AS I WRITE THIS, AWARD-WINNING WRITER MS MASHA GESSEN is on Democracy Now (WYCC Public Television) being interview over her November 2016 book AUTOCRACY: Rules For Survival.

I recall, that the release of the book barely ten days after the US Presidential election got mixed reactions at a time the losing side had bent over backwards to appear conciliatory. That this posture never paid off in the relationship with Trump is stark illustration of the many Rules that Gessen proposed.
This current interview continues from Gessen's old views and dovetails it with the journey so far these past nine months. It covers fresh grounds, warnings and updates in her new book THE FUTURE IS HISTORY - How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia. The prospects are dire.

A snippet: The proof of Russian intervention in the US elections and Trump’s collusion may never meet the standard required for impeachment. It will drag interminably. Moreover the Republican controlled Congress and Senate will never go for his impeachment. The concerted efforts by the various Congressional Committees and the press only serve to distract from confronting the sad fact of the Trump presidency. The normalization becomes entrenched. Regardless of what the Russians are eventually proven to have done, the sad reality is that it is Americans that ELECTED Trump as their president.

Apart from the dark pleasure of dragging the US in the mud, the Kremlin has on its part not gained anything especially in the much ballyhooed area of achieving improved relations with the US government. Gessen warns that following the current trajectory, relations between the two nations are approaching the unthinkable, a diplomatic rupture.

[Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books] is good,have a look at it! http://www.nybooks.com/…/trump-election-autocracy-rules-fo…/