anticipatory

History’s lessons are clear: anticipatory obedience is not a long-term defense for the news media, the country’s other institutions, or its citizens.

However, many media figures and insiders at CNN see the move as anticipatory obedience with the Trump administration.

The mainstream corporate news media is already engaging in what historian Timothy Snyder describes as "anticipatory obedience."

“We, researchers in general, were doing a lot of anticipatory obedience,” Abramoff said.

Timothy Snyder, who is a leading historian of fascism and the author of “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century”, explained the logic of “anticipatory obedience” to The Guardian in the following way: