Reddit reviews The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

> Sorry, I depend on science and facts

You should read The magical thinking of guys who love logic. "Science" is not the be-all and end-all of human knowledge.

There is no existing "science" which will accurately predict what the 327 million people of the United States are going to do politically and socially over the next few years, so if your standard for taking action is to wait for the science, you're going to sit around like a useless lump while the United States travels a very dark path.

> Especially when the op actually claims science supports such statements with at least one model and analysis.

That's not what they claimed. They described a "consensus among scholars and survivors." There are plenty of scholars who are not scientists, as you'll see below. What op is referring to is presumably the many warnings that have indeed been raised by scholars and survivors, of which the OP post is one. I'll list just a few of the more prominent ones, but if you search, you'll find many more.

• Timothy Snyder, professor of history at Yale, in his book The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
  
• Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy at Yale, How Fascism Works
  
• Cass R. Sunstein, professor at Harvard Law School and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy, who is "by far the most cited law professor in the United States," in his book Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America
  
• Madeline Albright, previously Ambassador to the UN and Secretary of State, in her book Fascism: A Warning
  
• Holocaust survivor Stephen B. Jacobs: https://www.newsweek.com/im-holocaust-survivor-trumps-america-feels-germany-nazis-took-over-876965. There are many more warnings from survivors also, if you look for them.
  
  I'll also point out that it takes effort to produce such a list, so if you take the fact that people you're arguing with just don't bother, perhaps because they perceive you as not worth the effort, you're going to find yourself wallowing in ignorance while at the same time thinking you know it all. Which is precisely the problem that gets us into situations like the current one. If you want to be part of the solution, you have to take responsibility for educating yourself better.

I think that this book should be read publicly. In every city in Europe.

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Timothy Snyder)

https://www.amazon.com/Road-Unfreedom-Russia-Europe-America-ebook/dp/B074YM8W91/ref=sr_1_2?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=3LAJ9YPXC6FHN&keywords=timothy+snyder&qid=1567754959&s=gateway&sprefix=timothy+sn%2Caps%2C237&sr=8-2