How Ordinary People Can Resist Authoritarianism
During Nazi Germany, most ordinary citizens chose silence. The White Rose students, pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg are examples of outliers who actively opposed the regime. However, historians estimate that only 1–2% of the German population resisted. Now, America is facing its own rise of authoritarianism and a troubling surge in hate.…