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‘It couldn’t happen right here’

Ece Temelkuran heard reasonable people in Britain say it the night from the Brexit vote.

She heard reasonable people in the usa say it the night Trump’s election was soundtracked by about how exactly to reduce a Country: The 7 Guidelines from Democracy to Dictatorship chants of ‘Build that wall.’

She heard reasonable people in Turkey say it as Erdo?an rigged elections, rebuilt the economy around cronyism, and labelled his opposition as terrorists.

How to Lose a Nation can be an impassioned plea, a caution to the globe that populism and nationalism don’t march fully-formed into authorities; they creep. Award earning author and journalist Ece Temelkuran recognizes the early-warning indications of this sensation, sprouting up around the world, in order to define a global design, and arm the audience with the tools to root it out.

Proposing alternative, global answers to the pressing – and too often paralysing – political queries of our time, Temelkuran explores the insidious idea of ‘real people’, the infantilisation of language and question, just how laughter can demonstrate a false friend, and the dangers of underestimating one’s opponent. She weaves memoir, background and clear-sighted discussion into an urgent and eloquent defence of democracy.

No longer may the reasonable convenience themselves with ‘it couldn’t happen here.’ It is occurring. And soon it might be too late.