"The authoritarian playbook exploits the machinery of democracy against itself. It uses democratic processes to undermine democratic substance. It leverages judicial independence to capture courts. It uses free speech to spread disinformation. It uses elections to install leaders who then methodically dismantle the guardrails that might constrain them.
And it works because not enough people care enough to stop it.
This isn't fatalism. It's an warning bell, and it's being rung by journalists, writers, academics, activists, and believers everywhere."
#USpolitics
https://www.theindex.media/the-parchment-barrier/?ref=daily-newsletter
Robert J. Berger
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