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The duelling narratives reflect how an attack that disrupted the certification of the election is increasingly viewed differently along partisan lines.
Tyranny of the Minority is a sequel to Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt's popular How Democracies Die. In both books the authors address authoritarian threats to democracy. They direct our attention to perils from within—the erosion of democratic norms and institutions by extremist parties that may ascend to power not through military force but through electoral appeals based on grievances, declining social status, and fear and hate of scapegoated groups like immigrants.
The 2023 general elections seem to have happened so long ago, and it also seems like yesterday. This sense of never ending election mode could be because of
Eight years on from Donald Trump’s descent down the escalator, the democratic doom boom in American commentary shows little sign of dissipating. “Democratic backsliding,” a term originating in comparative political science, is in the popular lexicon. The existence of a democratic “crisis” in the United States is now presumed across a wide swath of political takes (mine included). The January 6 insurrection marked an explosive denouement to Trump’s shambolic tenure, while the partisan response to
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