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“We've never had a president as aggressive as Trump,” says @MarkHalperin. “We've never seen the Democratic Party be this far to the left … They've lost some fundamental strengths and asymmetrical advantages that they have had for years and years … In every previous cycle, I could tell you the names of people from the losing party who could run for ... See more
2WAYx.comHow Democracies Die: The International Bestseller: What History Reveals About Our Future
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Steven Levitsky’s “How Democracies Die” became a surprise best-seller during President Trump’s first term. It chronicled Trump’s autocratic tendencies — his attacks on the press, the judiciary and the electoral system — and warned that one of the world’s oldest democracies was in peril.
Trump’s reelection “felt like a g... See more
instagram.comKill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
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it’s that extreme polarization can kill democracies.
Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt • How Democracies Die
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
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Populism offers strongmen an ideological basis for making themselves dictators while pretending to be democrats. It is particularly useful when strongmen seek to neutralize or appropriate the self-correcting mechanisms of democracy. Since judges, journalists, and professors allegedly pursue political interests rather than truth, the people’s champi
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