How Democracies Die
It’s difficult to approach this book, written in 2018, with the experiences of all the years which followed its publication. I found myself agitated throughout the reading. Many of Levitsky and Ziblatt’s points seem utterly naive and optimistic. There is a section of the book in which they lay out three potential scenarios for the future of the Trump Administration and the country. In one, their darkest, they describe a variety of “extreme” sounding ideas which they ultimately conclude to be unlikely. Each and every one has now occurred. ...