In ”How Democracies Die” a couple of political science professors outline the process that has repeatedly been followed as democratic government give way to autocracies, in the 1930s in Europe and in the postwar era in Peru, Venezuela, Chile and … Continue reading
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There’s anti-Trump energy across the country, and not just in blue environs as raucous town hall meetings in Iowa and Arkansas and marches nationwide have demonstrated. Karl Rove notes that about one fifth of the electorate is Trump Forever, over … Continue reading
We’ve often seen this movie before, from the fevered imagination of liberal Hollywood: the paranoid thriller. Shadowy cabals of monied men are intent in controlling everything. Politicians are their lackeys. The laws are written to their order. Critics are silenced. … Continue reading