Venezuela, Renee Good and Trump’s ‘Assault on Hope’

<p>The shocking events of January have sent a message: America works differently now. </p><p>M. Gessen is a Times Opinion columnist and the author of books about living under autocracy, including the National Book Award-winning “The Future Is History.” They have been a clear, relentless and perceptive voice on what it means and what it is like to live in a country that is turning into a different kind of regime. And they wrote an essay on the seizure of the …