Source: Persuasion
by Roger Partridge
“[Niall] Ferguson is right on one level. America has experienced nothing like the Night of the Long Knives. But that misses the real test: Are the checks and balances of constitutional democracy being so hollowed out that democracy is at real risk? The evidence suggests this to be the case. Trump’s systematic capture of law enforcement, regulatory agencies, and emergency powers achieves tyranny in all but duration — authoritarian control operating through constitutional forms.” (10/15/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/people-are-still-normalizing-trump