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They wrote, we feel dread, as to so many americans even as we try to reassure ourselves that things cant really be that bad here. this is how we tend to think of democracies dying at the hands of men with guns but there is another way to break a democracy, it is less dramatic but equally is destructive. they may die the hands of not generals but if elected leaders, presidents or prime ministers who have read the very process who brought them to power. in an article last month co-written by profe...

Functioning dictatorship. quote, even if the republicans managed to steal the 2024 election, their ability to monopolize power over an extended period of time will likely be limited. america may no longer be safe for democracy, but it remains inhospitable to autocracy. rather than autocracy, the united states appears headed toward endemic regime instability. joining us now are stephen levitskiy and daniel ziplock, both professors of government at harvard university. professor levitskiy, let me b...