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Glenn Greenwald points out that America's drift towards authoritarianism has nothing to do with Trump and everything to do with neoliberalism
Two years ago, at the end of a democratic theory seminar, I read Alexander Kirshner’s book A Theory of Militant Democracy (2014) and decided to continue his discussion about the paradox of democracy. The paradox asks: can a democratic society, in a non-contradictory way, restrict political participation if said participation is a threat to democracy?[2] For the purposes of my essay, “antidemocrat” is taken to mean a political actor that wishes to exclude a socially salient group of participants from the demos. Kirshner’s book is illuminating, though not the first to bring the concer...