https://tblibrary.com/tags/democracy/ Recent content in Democracy on TB Library Hugo en Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://tblibrary.com/books/how-democracies-die---steven-levitsky-daniel-ziblatt/ Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://tblibrary.com/books/how-democracies-die---steven-levitsky-daniel-ziblatt/ <h2 id="review">Review</h2> <p>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 <em>utterly</em> 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.</p>