Levitsky, Steven Way, Lucan A. and Ziblatt, Daniel

The price of American authoritarianism: What can reverse democratic decline? - Foreign Affairs - 105(1), Jan-Feb, 2026: p.30-45

When Donald Trump won reelection in November 2024, much of the American establishment responded with a shrug. After all, Trump had been democratically elected, even winning the popular vote. And democracy had survived the chaos of his first term, including the shocking events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Surely, then, it would survive a second Trump presidency.- Reproduced

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