{"id":2986,"date":"2025-07-09T11:55:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2025-07-09T11:50:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:50:24","slug":"history-teaches-us-how-to-push-back-on-authoritarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/history-teaches-us-how-to-push-back-on-authoritarianism\/","title":{"rendered":"History Teaches Us How to Push Back on Authoritarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Boston political scientist wrote the blueprint for undermining autocrats that activists used successfully in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Across Asia.\u00a0 He identifies three approaches that have worked especially well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Three Well-Tested Ways to Undermine an Autocrat<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.today\/zBicL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/21\/opinion\/authoritarianism-democracy-protest.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781250303042\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Boston political scientist wrote the blueprint for undermining autocrats that activists used successfully in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Across Asia.\u00a0 He identifies three approaches that have worked especially well. Three Well-Tested Ways to Undermine an Autocrat https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/21\/opinion\/authoritarianism-democracy-protest.html Related Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,65,53,40,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-education","category-global","category-politics","category-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2988,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions\/2988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}