📚 Finished reading How To Lose A Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran. I found this important, readable, but hard-going. The book uses the experience of Turkey over the past few decades as a warning of what can happen to democracies. I found it difficult to remember where I was in the 7 steps, which may be more of a reflection of me reading it before bedtime each night than of the book itself.

The point that struck the biggest chord with me was how humans need a cause that they can get behind. The left isn’t offering this, so people gravitate to whatever narrative there is, typically one touted by right-wing populists.