As E.J. Dionne notes, Steven Levetsky’s and Daniel Ziblatt’s “How Democracies Die” offers a very disturbing take on the current state of Western democracy. The public library has copies. I recommend that everyone read it.
One of the book’s most chilling insights: The “people” have never turned back a nation’s drift toward authoritarianism. Only political parties have done so — and they have done so only when a conservative party, recognizing the threat from the radical right, has joined with a liberal party to counter a rising authoritarian tide.
Where are those with the political will to reform the GOP and counter its authoritarian Trumpublican turn?
Andrew G. Bjelland, Salt Lake City