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The historian Timothy Snyder sees a dire future ahead for the United States of America should Republican candidate Donald Trump win the election. Snyder, who is a Permanent Fellow at the Vienna Institute for Human Sciences, fears the end of the American republic, civil unrest and further substantial restrictions of women’s rights.