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How to explain, then, the reappearance of this 2019 title, by exiled Turkish columnist Ece Temelkuran? The only difference would appear to be the new foreword and, more importantly, the one-word change in the title from Dictatorship to Fascism. (And it doesn’t hurt to have a Margaret Atwood blurb on the book jacket, who states “This is essential.”) How to Lose a Country Then again, the triumphant return of U.
S. President-elect Donald Trump does indeed suggest a wider, more attentive audience. For those who like their arguments presented in point form, Temelkuran offers three reasons in her foreword.
First, humans are often late to recognize a tsunami of change — like rock stars, we are fashionably late. Second, rather than dealing with trouble, we prefer to go deaf. And third, we like to believe someone else will do something about the problem rather than act ourselve.
