Scarier than most Horror
In How Democracies Die, Levitsky and Ziblatt describe how fragile the democratic system of government is and how, in the wrong hands, the same tools used to protect democracy can be used to twist it into something that is unrecognizable. While I find political theory more interesting than most but HDD was far more entertaining and enjoyable than any other book, I had to read for class. HDD dies uses examples from current and past authoritarian nations along with examples of current examples of electoral authoritarianism to show the risks the United States currently faces. While the United States has not yet become another example of electoral authoritarianism, some are trying to push the US in that direction.
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Our Democracy is In Trouble
This was publish during Trumps first term but you wouldn't no it. Back then these authours though our democracy was threatened and now it is even more threatened. They give a thorough history how democracies across the Europe, South America and Central America have fallen to autocrats. They identify the common elements in the autocrat playbook and point to them in the USA. I very accessible and informative read.
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