{"id":20303,"date":"2025-11-04T19:50:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20303"},"modified":"2025-11-04T19:50:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:50:49","slug":"is-trumpism-too-far-gone-to-save-u-s-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20303","title":{"rendered":"Is Trumpism Too Far Gone to Save U.S. Democracy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Is Trumpism Too Far Gone to Save U.S. Democracy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump is moving the United States in an authoritarian direction and there is a real&nbsp;question as to whether authoritarianism will consolidate, or Democracy will survive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are post-truth authoritarian movements in the West, and it&#8217;s not clear which countries will survive as democracies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many politicians won&#8217;t act against Trump because they are afraid it will hurt their careers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Is Trumpism Too Far Gone to Save U.S. Democracy?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GoO3_EaoE6Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump is moving the United States in an authoritarian direction and there is a real question as to whether authoritarianism will consolidate, or Democracy will survive. <\/p>\n<p>There are post-truth authoritarian movements in the West, and it&#8217;s not clear which countries will survive as democracies. <\/p>\n<p>Many politicians won&#8217;t act against Trump because they are afraid it will hurt their careers. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GoO3_EaoE6Y<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,864,431,660,221,728,167,1816,2051,170],"class_list":["post-20303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-autocracy","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-donald-trump","tag-europe","tag-government","tag-politicians","tag-populism","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20304,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20303\/revisions\/20304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}