Where Does American Democracy Go From Here?

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Charles Homans: Steven, when you and Daniel Ziblatt published “How Democracies Die” in 2018, you considered the possible futures ahead of us as a country after Donald Trump’s presidency.

Steven Levitsky: I think it was broadly right. Trump didn’t consolidate an autocracy. But things got a lot worse more quickly than we expected. Even though our book was considered a little on the alarmist side when it was published, I think we were insufficiently alarmed.

We did not anticipate the rapid and thoroughgoing Trumpization of the Republican Party. We did not consider the Republican Party to be an antidemocratic force when we wrote the book in 2017.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/17/magazine/democracy.html
 
I too was shocked how many Americans would throw over our system to follow a wannabe dictator. It has not gotten better. It is a scary world they are pushing.
 
Nordberg said:
I too was shocked how many Americans would throw over our system to follow a wannabe dictator. It has not gotten better. It is a scary world they are pushing.
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We have an increase of neo-fascism and not its decline. While many American obsess on Ukraine our own country is falling apart.
 
They are against Putin now



That is the beginning of sanity’s return


The racist assholes will crawl back into the sewer soon


We will win
 
BidenPresident said:
We have an increase of neo-fascism and not its decline. While many American obsess on Ukraine our own country is falling apart.
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Nope


They just feel free to express their racism


They have always been there



Back to the sewer for them



Make racism hated again


Moving to a more perfect union
 
Nordberg said:
I too was shocked how many Americans would throw over our system to follow a wannabe dictator. It has not gotten better. It is a scary world they are pushing.
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I noticed it during the Katrina aftermath


The racism


Anyone who’s racist doesn’t really believe in democracy


All humans is the backbone of real democracy


All people


Not just the ones you deem worthy
 
Nordberg said:
I too was shocked how many Americans would throw over our system to follow a wannabe dictator. It has not gotten better. It is a scary world they are pushing.
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It is depressing how many seemed to accept the democrat coup. Time will tell if the donkeys have killed the election system for good and all.
 
Ben Ginsberg: The whole thing, honestly, has shocked me. It’s not so much the elected officials who were giving the fist pumps on Jan. 6, because they were sort of predictable in doing that. It’s the many people within the party whom I know and have known for years who are good, decent, principled people, who are silent. It’s the silence of the Republican Party that is most surprising to me and most upsetting.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/17/magazine/democracy.html
 
Celticguy said:
It is depressing how many seemed to accept the democrat coup. Time will tell if the donkeys have killed the election system for good and all.
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Why do you prefer lies to facts



The American court system proves the Republican Party has cheated its ass off in elections


Mountains of cases and punishment on the Republican Party for decades


There is no such record for the Democratic Party


You are operating on fucking lies idiot
 
BidenPresident said:
Ben Ginsberg: The whole thing, honestly, has shocked me. It’s not so much the elected officials who were giving the fist pumps on Jan. 6, because they were sort of predictable in doing that. It’s the many people within the party whom I know and have known for years who are good, decent, principled people, who are silent. It’s the silence of the Republican Party that is most surprising to me and most upsetting.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/17/magazine/democracy.html
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That person is wrong


The silent ones are not decent
 
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