How Will We Know?

How will Americans know when we have lost our democracy? By Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way and Daniel Ziblatt,  The New York Times 08.05.2025 Authoritarianism is harder to recognize than it used to be. Most 21st-century autocrats are elected. Rather than violently suppress opposition like Castro or Pinochet, today's autocrats convert public institutions into political weapons, using law enforcement, tax and regulatory agencies to punish opponents and bully the media and civil soc...