America Crosses Into Competitive Authoritarian Rule Under Trump

America Crosses Into Competitive Authoritarian Rule Under Trump

In the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs, political scientists Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way argued that during the early months of President Donald Trump’s new administration, the United States was transitioning from a constitutional democracy to a form of authoritarian rule. They contended that the US constitutional democracy was breaking down and being replaced by what they term “competitive authoritarianism.” This classification places th…

How Trump Has Remade America's Political Landscape

The steady march to the right across a vast number of counties reveals the extent of the nation's transformation in the Trump era, and the seriousness of the Democrats' problems.

Donald Trump inhabits the White House for the second time not so much on his own merits as on the part of the Democratic Party’s induced failure. Last November’s US elections allow us to see that politics is emotions and not pure rationality. It’s okay that it is, but we need to understand it to act from our trenches and have a clear compass to transform everything that deserves to be changed and bury everything that deserves to be buried. The D…

“How Donald Trump Has Remade America’s Political Landscape”

NYT: Donald J. Trump’s victory in 2024 was not an outlier. It was the culmination of continuous gains by Republicans in much of the country each time he has run for president, a sea of red that amounts to a… Continue reading The post “How Donald Trump Has Remade America’s Political Landscape” appeared first on Election Law Blog.

We look at the “triple-trend condols,” where Republicans or Democrats won vote in the last three presidential elections. Shane Goldmacher, a national political correspondent for the New York Times, shows that President Trump has gained ground as the country’s political geography has been realigned. The post The counties where Trump won appeared first on Diario La República.