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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 ...
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.
A 2022 Quinnipiac University poll found that 69 percent of Democrats and Republicans and 66 percent of Independents think American democracy is "in danger of collapse". [123] Heading toward the 2024 elections, polls indicated that Democrats and Republicans alike had serious concerns about democratic backsliding, though for starkly different ...
Veteran political strategist James Carville suggested that Democrats should embrace “autocracy” ahead of the November election, arguing not everyone should have “a seat at the table.” “I ...
The coinciding tenure from 2017 to 2021 of ANO 2011 leader Andrej Babiš and his ally, President Miloš Zeman, has been described by analysts Sean Hanley and Milada Anna Vachudova as a period of democratic backsliding, albeit to a less drastic degree than Poland or Hungary. [5]
For much of the last four years, Democrats have warned Americans about the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy. From the Jan. 6 Capitol riot to his phone call telling Georgia’s Secretary of ...