"There is no historical example of beating authoritarianism by standing back and waiting patiently for the authoritarians to take themselves down. The only thing that beats creeping authoritarianism is a strong, broad-based, big tent pro-democracy movement led by people on the ground in every community. We cannot count on that movement naturally arising -- we have to build it. That means action -- public, visible, raise-the-alarm-because-this-is-not-normal-or-acceptable sort of action."
