America is sliding toward authoritarianism. That’s not popular.

America is sliding toward authoritarianism. That’s not popular.

The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set news policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com Colin Woodard of Freeport is the author of “ Nations Apart: How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America,” on sale Nov. 4. He is the director of Nationhood Lab at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy. The U.S. is in the …