re: #196 Citizen K

The intro to Chapter 6 of Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny” published 2017:

Be wary of paramilitaries.

When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching with torches and pictures of a leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.

I bought this book a year or so ago but just started reading it this week. It’s a small book with “twenty lessons from the 20th century, adapted to the circumstances of today”. It’s unsettling.