I found skipping ahead to Doremus at the NY speech to be what got the book going. I skipped to around page 101 and it really didn't seem to hurt the story at all. Am I missing important parts?

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Eric David Hart I think you might be missing what I considered the best part: the slow build-up, the insidious way authoritarian behaviour spreads, and how small-time bullies can suddenly become empowered in such a regime. One of the points is that real, legitimate dissatisfaction can be manipulated into support for authoritarianism. I actually found later chapters, when the government becomes a full-blown dictatorship, to be less interesting.

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