Harvard Professor Steven Levitsky: "Right Now, the U.S. Is Ceasing to Be a Democracy"

'Long live the techno-chains!' Little have to do with the contemporary US with Spain of 1823, that of the return of Fernando VII. They share the convulsion. And that legendary cry, which now sings some with a technocratic accent, in the midst of Donald Trump's breaking and crushing return to the White House. The second advent of the New York billionaire occurs in the midst of an absolutist drive with a growing presence in the world's first power…

How trump could be winning

Look we may care about aid to Africa or the safeguarding of democracy. But it’s a pretty good bet that many or most Americans are either indifferent, uninformed, or prefer dictatorship. trump is having some success in implementing cruelty towards...

Trump rages to snuff out Democracy’s candle

Will We Rage Against the Dying of Its Light?

Harvard Professor Steven Levitsky: "Right Now, the U.S. Is Ceasing to Be a Democracy"

Donald Trump is currently transforming the U.S. into an authoritarian state, argues Harvard Professor Steven Levitsky, author of "How Democracies Die." And he is using an unexpected twist in the authoritarian playbook to do so.

Trump rages to snuff out Democracy's Candle: Will we Rage against the Dying of its Light?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Allow me to stipulate that I do not wish to die. In fact, had anyone consulted me about the construction of the universe, I would have made my views on the subject quite clear: mortality is a terrible idea. I’m opposed to it in general. (In wiser moments, I know that this is silly and that all life feeds on life. There is no life without the death of other beings, indeed, no planets without the death of stars.) Nonetheless,…

The leader attacks democracy and those who defy his illegal executive orders, and the Americans don't realize it