US EditionWho Really Runs America?
- The mainstream media and academia analyze President Trump's actions amid growing executive power and police state tactics targeting specific groups, such as people of color and Indigenous peoples.
- The use of state-sanctioned violence in the U.S. Is embedded in its history, with Indigenous peoples facing genocide and systemic racism leading to the dismantling of multiracial democracy since the late 19th century.
- Political scientists like Steve Teles argue that minority factions can hijack democracy using tools designed to protect against majority tyranny, resulting in an inability for the majority to realize beneficial policies.
- The conversation about American democracy often ignores the enduring struggles of rural Black and Indigenous communities, emphasizing the need to acknowledge past injustices to understand current democratic challenges.
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The AtlanticWho Really Runs America?
Jerusalem Demsas: “Something has gone wrong in American democracy. Though our diagnoses differ, the entire political spectrum chafes at the widespread dysfunction. Our traditional modes for understanding democratic decline—tyranny of the majority, corruption, erosion of trust, polarization—all of these shed some light onto our current circumstances, but they fail to explain how policies with broad public support don’t materialize.” “While report…
Commentary: If Democracy Collapses in America, It Won’t Be the First Time
Recent political events have sparked renewed discussion around American democracy and what it means to be an “American.” The mainstream media and academia have been studying every move of President Trump and trying to find parallels that explain our political moment, which has been dominated by the consolidation of executive power and the expansion of the police state to target certain groups of people. It is concerning, however, that these conv…
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