"A lof of people who used to be willing to speak the truth about the emerging autocrat before he came to power arnen't willing to do that anymore. They want to erase or at least clean up the bad things they used to say about it. And a lot of policitians who previously drew lines of principle and said they would not cross those lines, or said the authoritarian would never cross those lines, they have to adjust their promises when the authoritarian does cross those lines."