#Strongmen is on the NYT bestseller list! Thank you 💕 to everyone.
November 14, 2024 at 1:49 AM
#Strongmen is on the NYT bestseller list! Thank you 💕 to everyone.
December 12, 2024 at 1:09 PM
This is literally the subject of a chapter in my book #Strongmen...
January 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This is literally the subject of a chapter in my book #Strongmen...
Why #Strongmen has a chapter on masculinity, reason #3,256
Boris Johnson: “I think there is sort of a faction in the Republican Party that has a strange kind of... sort of homoerotic fascination for Putin."
November 19, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Why #Strongmen has a chapter on masculinity, reason #3,256
Trump always loves strongmen who stage successful coups.
Trump on Egyptian President el-Sisi: "He was in a hotel and I met him. We fell in love, deeply in love ... we didn't know each other before that. We had great chemistry, and I stayed twice as long as I was supposed to."
June 18, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Trump always loves strongmen who stage successful coups.
Listen, folks who follow a high-control religion (Evangelicals) often vote for high-control lawmakers…authoritarians and strongmen.
December 9, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Listen, folks who follow a high-control religion (Evangelicals) often vote for high-control lawmakers…authoritarians and strongmen.
Read #Strongmen and compare with Mussolini quotes on same subjects...
Elon Musk has tweeted nonstop about white babies, white genocide, population decline, and fertility rates for the past week.
This is what it's all about, folks. The supervillain plot is tweeted in real time.
White supremacy. Fear. Anxiety. Hatred. A loathing of diversity.
This is what it's all about, folks. The supervillain plot is tweeted in real time.
White supremacy. Fear. Anxiety. Hatred. A loathing of diversity.
December 6, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Read #Strongmen and compare with Mussolini quotes on same subjects...
I have an analysis of this gesture in #Strongmen
a gesture with links to european history
January 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I have an analysis of this gesture in #Strongmen
As someone who has studied strongmen throughout history, I can’t stress enough that we should not see authoritarians as infallible.
July 26, 2026 at 7:58 PM
As someone who has studied strongmen throughout history, I can’t stress enough that we should not see authoritarians as infallible.
Hardly a new enemy. See the machismo and misogyny chapter of #Strongmen.
Misogyny is an increasing factor in far-right attacks, but it often goes unnoticed. n.pr/4tWJ12w
For far-right extremists, the rise of a new enemy: women
Misogyny is an increasing factor in far-right attacks, but it often goes unnoticed.
n.pr
May 27, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Hardly a new enemy. See the machismo and misogyny chapter of #Strongmen.
Exactly how MANY emerging-market strongmen are we going to rescue? 🤡
@politico.com 🇭🇺
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@politico.com 🇭🇺
www.politico.eu/article/hung...
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Exactly how MANY emerging-market strongmen are we going to rescue? 🤡
@politico.com 🇭🇺
www.politico.eu/article/hung...
@politico.com 🇭🇺
www.politico.eu/article/hung...
Forget strongmen, who has Strongbad endorsed?
September 11, 2024 at 2:00 AM
Forget strongmen, who has Strongbad endorsed?
Baxter Strongmen, Stone Put.
August 5, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Baxter Strongmen, Stone Put.
I spoke with @joycewhitevance.bsky.social this week about the state of politics in the US.
Video: snyder.substack.com/p/strongmen-...
Video: snyder.substack.com/p/strongmen-...
Strongmen Can Fail if We Act with Joyce Vance
A recording from Timothy Snyder and Joyce Vance's live video
snyder.substack.com
June 27, 2026 at 7:39 PM
I spoke with @joycewhitevance.bsky.social this week about the state of politics in the US.
Video: snyder.substack.com/p/strongmen-...
Video: snyder.substack.com/p/strongmen-...
Trump looked weak, old. He is a punching bag for strongmen so he tries to beatdown on the vulnerable at home. A true bully.
August 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Trump looked weak, old. He is a punching bag for strongmen so he tries to beatdown on the vulnerable at home. A true bully.
I wanted to understand authoritarianism so I asked a complete fraud
May 26, 2026 at 9:17 PM
I wanted to understand authoritarianism so I asked a complete fraud
This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.
October 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.
As a historian of military coups (1/3 of my book #Strongmen is on that subject) this sight unsettles me...
In preparation for next week’s parade/demonstration, tanks are being moved into Washington, DC today. Unprecedented.
(Photo from a colleague in DC)
(Photo from a colleague in DC)
June 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
As a historian of military coups (1/3 of my book #Strongmen is on that subject) this sight unsettles me...
Fuck Trump. Fuck JD Vance. Props to Zelensky for holding his own against these two tiny dick wannabe strongmen.
February 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Fuck Trump. Fuck JD Vance. Props to Zelensky for holding his own against these two tiny dick wannabe strongmen.
Look at the strongmen in the Ukrainian army 🔥
December 16, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Look at the strongmen in the Ukrainian army 🔥
“The Trump family’s earnings, experts said, have moved him into an echelon of enrichment more associated with strongmen in Russia and Turkey”
{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...
{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...
Trump’s Huge Windfall Has Few Known Global Precedents
www.nytimes.com
July 3, 2026 at 12:51 PM
“The Trump family’s earnings, experts said, have moved him into an echelon of enrichment more associated with strongmen in Russia and Turkey”
{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...
{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...
“.. The Trump family’s earnings, experts said, have moved him into an echelon of enrichment more associated with strongmen in Russia and Turkey.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...
July 6, 2026 at 11:30 AM
“.. The Trump family’s earnings, experts said, have moved him into an echelon of enrichment more associated with strongmen in Russia and Turkey.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...
That's because "Strongmen" don't need therapy, and the weak tax our system.
Did you know health insurance plans are required to provide the same access to mental health care as medical care?
The media is ignoring President Biden’s new regulations to strengthen protections for mental health coverage and hold insurance companies accountable for unlawfully denying it.
The media is ignoring President Biden’s new regulations to strengthen protections for mental health coverage and hold insurance companies accountable for unlawfully denying it.
December 16, 2024 at 4:38 PM
That's because "Strongmen" don't need therapy, and the weak tax our system.
This is a dynamic right out of my book #Strongmen...
And here is my Lucid essay on autocratic backfire: open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...
And here is my Lucid essay on autocratic backfire: open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...
April 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This is a dynamic right out of my book #Strongmen...
And here is my Lucid essay on autocratic backfire: open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...
And here is my Lucid essay on autocratic backfire: open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...
like many strongmen Trump has specifically avoided surrounding himself with people who could easily step into his shoes
November 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
like many strongmen Trump has specifically avoided surrounding himself with people who could easily step into his shoes