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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future by Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky
informative
4.0
To do anything else would put democracy at risk, and losing democracy is far worse than losing an election.
Trump was precisely the kind of figure that had haunted Hamilton and other founders when they created the American presidency.
Surely the board knows what democracy is. It is the feeling of privacy in the voting booths, the feeling of communion in the libraries, the feeling of vitality everywhere. Democracy is a letter to the editor. Democracy is the score at the beginning of the ninth. It is an idea which hasn’t been disproved yet, a song the words of which have not gone bad.
Trump was precisely the kind of figure that had haunted Hamilton and other founders when they created the American presidency.
Surely the board knows what democracy is. It is the feeling of privacy in the voting booths, the feeling of communion in the libraries, the feeling of vitality everywhere. Democracy is a letter to the editor. Democracy is the score at the beginning of the ninth. It is an idea which hasn’t been disproved yet, a song the words of which have not gone bad.