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Former Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich, as chronicled in Julian E. Zelizer’s “Burning Down the House,” successfully ended Democrats’ 40-year control of Congress by prioritizing politics ...
Nathan Hochman, U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division (2008–2009) (Independent; Republican until 2023) (endorsed Kamala Harris) [61] James A. Kelly , Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (2001–2005) ( endorsed Kamala Harris ) [ 45 ]
Don’t imagine that Democratic politicians who stood up to Trump couldn’t possibly become Trump. Political ambition helped demagoguery take over the Republican Party in just a few years.
How Democracies Die is a 2018 comparative politics book by the Harvard University political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt about democratic backsliding and how elected leaders can gradually subvert the democratic process to increase their power.
Democratic backsliding [a] is a process of regime change toward autocracy in which the exercise of political power becomes more arbitrary and repressive. [7] [8] [9] The process typically restricts the space for public contest and political participation in the process of government selection.
The Democrats have had their turn in recent years, and now it’s the Republicans’ moment in the sun. But the stakes feel higher now, largely because the current political climate doesn’t ...
Democrats are split on snubbing or showing up for Donald Trump's inauguration Phillip M. Bailey, Sudiksha Kochi and Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY Updated December 13, 2024 at 11:37 AM
The COVID-19 pandemic has opened up gaps in the action of democracy, [8] largely due to the heavy practical and logistical disruption the virus and its subsequent "lockdown" restrictions have caused. Across the world, national governments found themselves with no other choice but to suspend, cancel, or postpone numerous democratic elections at ...