Source: Washington Monthly
by David Atkins
“Donald Trump promised to be a dictator on day one, and he seems dead set on keeping his promise. With reckless speed, he has announced wildly unqualified nominees to his administration, whose only apparent merit is unswerving fealty to their master combined with a bloodlust for retribution against their perceived liberal enemies. But the fact that these men (and they are almost all men) want to destroy democracy and do untold harm to civil society doesn’t mean they can. People organized in unflinching resistance can stop them. Developed democracies only succumb to authoritarian backsliding with the consent of a cowering public.” (12/09/24)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/12/09/saving-democracy-through-ideas/