The response to this crisis has been varied and chaotic, but it has at least increased the market for the kind of popular writing that rallies the electorate against this kind of rightist shenanigans. Elsewhere, other putative democracies, including the United Kingdom, the Philippines, and Brazil, have elected authoritarian leaders and sown the seeds of a similar degradation of the liberal status quo. It’s not hard to understand why: America, which long ago convinced itself that it is the natural home of freedom and democracy, barely dodged the bullet of re-electing a president whose contempt for institutions and the democratic process was palpable, and it has seen the repercussions – an increasingly polarized electorate, growing radicalism, and a near-insurrection at the nation’s capital – ever since. Tyranny is on a lot of peoples’ minds these days, both at home and abroad.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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