The slow-mo coup

Alex Henderson:

In the 2018 book "How Democracies Die," political science professor Daniel Ziblatt and his Harvard University colleague Steven Levitsky warned that liberal democracies can easily turn into authoritarian states if a country's checks and balances are eroded — and when Ziblatt appeared on CNN's "Reliable Sources" over Memorial Day Weekend 2021, he warned that U.S. democracy is in peril.

Ziblatt views the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol Building and former President Donald Trump's refusal to accept the 2020 election results as disturbing examples of the authoritarian threat the U.S. is facing....

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