The first chapter in historian Timothy Snyder’s 2017 book, “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century,” is “Do Not Obey in Advance.”
Corporate America, especially its leaders from the billionaire class, apparently didn’t find time to read Snyder’s slim volume, because even before Election Day, they began to obey in advance. Major newspaper owners killed planned endorsements of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, for example. And after the election, news and social media business owners…
