@MarkBourrie Mark, huge thanks! I confess that I have pretty well tuned out of X so this is especially nice. You made me log in!
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Ken McGoogan
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Ken McGoogan
@KenMcGoogan
Writer, traveler, speaker, Toronto, Arctic, Scotland, Ireland
Toronto Katılım Ağustos 2012
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For people who don't follow federal political trends obsessively, this book is a real eye-opener. Even people who do watch current events will learn a lot. Strongly suggest adding Ken McGoogan's Shadows of Tyranny for a 30,000-ft overview. @coyne @KenMcGoogan
Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩@acoyne
I've written a book. Somewhat timely, as it happens. It's called The Crisis of Canadian Democracy and it's coming out in May. You can pre-order it from Sutherland House Books at sutherlandhousebooks.com/product/the-cr…. Or, if you prefer, from Amazon: amazon.ca/Crisis-Canadia… Indigo: indigo.ca/en-ca/the-cris… University of Toronto Press: utpdistribution.com/9781990823916/… Waterstones: waterstones.com/book/the-crisi… Books-a-million: booksamillion.com/p/Crisis-Canad… Target: target.com/p/the-trouble-… Hatchards: hatchards.co.uk/book/the-crisi… Booktopia: booktopia.com.au/the-crisis-of-… OrellFüssli: orellfuessli.ch/shop/home/arti… Adlibris: adlibris.com/se/bok/the-cri…
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In a new episode of the @ChamplainSoc Witness to Yesterday #podcast Greg Marchildon talks to @KenMcGoogan about his book, Shadows of Tyranny: Defending #Democracy in an Age of #Dictatorship. Listen at: bit.ly/WTYO2524 @DMPublishers #USPolitics #politics #polisci
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Love this! And love her timing!
ABC News@ABC
BREAKING: On the heels of Tuesday night's @ABC News Presidential Debate, Taylor Swift announced on Instagram that she is supporting Vice Pres. Kamala Harris for president. Swift signed her post with her name and "Childless Cat Lady." Read more: trib.al/qdFjfbB
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Ha ha, thanks, Scott. I see this book as bringing me full circle from my first opus: Canada's Undeclared War: Fighting Word from the Literary Trenches.
Scott R. McKinley@ScottRMcKinley
@KenMcGoogan "Master of narrative history fires inkwells at local demagoguery driving world nuts so he can have peace of mind to research next arctic masterpiece..." That's my take. Looking forward to it on 24 Sept.
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@sqwabb @jackermann @CityNewsVAN @DMPublishers Not synonymous, no. Not history repeating but rhyming.
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@jackermann @CityNewsVAN @KenMcGoogan @DMPublishers Churchill rose to the challenge of defending the British Empire against Nazism but that can't be seen as synonymous with defending democracy, not given Churchill's brutal attitude toward India.
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In Shadows of Tyranny, author @KenMcGoogan asks, “Where is our Churchill?” — meaning, where is the figure today who will meet the challenge of Trumpism, just as British Prime Minister Winston Churchill rose to challenge Nazism. #NewsRadioBookshelf @CityNewsVAN @DMPublishers
CityNews Vancouver@CityNewsVAN
NewsRadio bookshelf: John Ackermann speaks with Ken McGoogan, author of Shadows of Tyranny: Defending Democracy in an Age of Dictatorship. vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/08/31/boo…
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Gotta say: this is one of the best interviews anyone has ever done with me. Beautifully edited. Two minutes and 9 seconds here.
CityNews Vancouver@CityNewsVAN
NewsRadio bookshelf: John Ackermann speaks with Ken McGoogan, author of Shadows of Tyranny: Defending Democracy in an Age of Dictatorship. vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/08/31/boo…
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You, sir, are a man of insight and good judgment.
Retired. Vive le Canada 🇨🇦 + 🇩🇪 🕊 🇺🇦@TPS_32Planner
I'm reading this amazing book that shows how Trump and others are following the playbooks of Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and others. The same cultish behaviour to make people lose their ability to think clearly. @KenMcGoogan knocks it out of the park.
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Think France in the 1940s. Make no mistake: I celebrate The Resistance . . . .
The Walrus@thewalrus
This year, Tucker Carlson—who has called for a US invasion of Canada—was given several standing ovations in Calgary, suggesting that “a significant minority of Canadians would be ready to collaborate with any American occupation,” writes @KenMcGoogan. thewalrus.ca/why-canada-sho…
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Ha ha! I especially love this bit: "Mr. Trump’s profound ignorance – a vast mental wasteland of incuriousness, guarded by stupidity – is, like his bottomless vulgarity, his unalloyed corruption, and his refusal to abide by any convention of civilized conduct, his superpower."
Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩@acoyne
My latest, on J D Vance as the dreaded “smarter Trump”: Turns out that makes him less of a threat, not more. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
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It's a metaphor for the sharks. The sharks are the worst. One vote for the orange lunatic and presto! the sharks are gone. Oh, and no more tiresome voting. Like the sharks. The sharks don't vote. And they're doing fine.
Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩@acoyne
Relax, he probably just meant that he … well, you know, it could just be a metaphor for … for …
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@KenMcGoogan @thewalrus Bitch, if your books are anything like the recycled, sky is falling, schoolyard shrieking, hyperbole filled garbage in that article, then I would expect you've sold a total of 17 books.
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Despite four indictments, Republicans put Trump forward as their candidate for the upcoming US election. Past events prove that if he were to regain office, “he would not hesitate to subvert the democratic process,” writes @KenMcGoogan.
thewalrus.ca/why-canada-sho…
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@TeamPortia @thewalrus You pathetic twit. I've published 17 books. That's more than you have read. When will you be getting out of high school, dolt?
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@KenMcGoogan @thewalrus What a steaming diaperload of shit this article was. To call you a "journalist" is an insult to the word.
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Big shoutout to The Walrus, Canada's answer to The Atlantic. Why? Why, for running this excerpt from Shadows of Tyranny!
The Walrus@thewalrus
“Like the war correspondents of the 1930s, we find ourselves crying: Wake up! See what is happening next door!” Read an excerpt from Shadows of Tyranny: Defending Democracy in an Age of Dictatorship by @KenMcGoogan, published by @DMPublishers: thewalrus.ca/why-canada-sho…
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