https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/09\/19\/american-democracy-resilience-00548910<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Trump does all the same things as the authoritarians Levitsky and Ziblatt studied: He has refused to accept electoral defeats; called political opponents criminals and tried to jail them even while backing his own violent supporters; and lashed out at opponents and the media as \u201cenemies of the people\u201d \u2014 a chilling phrase that echoes Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and the Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.<\/p>\n
But Trump\u2019s authoritarianism also resembles that of dangerous populists who failed to kill democracy. Careful studies that never seem to get much press find that only about a fifth of dangerous populists actually kill democracy, including in different regions and across different time spans. If you\u2019re serious about weighing the Trump threat, you should be asking what makes the difference between countries where democracy died and countries where it survives.”<\/p>\n
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