Watching Democracy Burn, Part 1
As it turns out, I picked a bad time to start reading a book called How Democracies Die.
The 2018 tome by Harvard political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt presents case studies of how democratic governments throughout history have fallen to authoritarian regimes as a warning that the 243-year-old American experiment is more fragile than we think.
To my mind, two recent events reinforced the book’s premise. But more than that, they made me wonder if we’ve not just reached the precipice but, in fact, already jumped.
Before we get there, we need to fully understand what that premise is. And, try as I might, 305 pages on two centuries of political history proved impossible to effectively summarize in a paragraph or two.
Read more: https://indyweek.com/news/soapboxer/watching-democracy-burn-part-1/
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