Archive - Democracy Americana

Elite Acquiescence and Treacherous “Normalcy” All Around Us

What are the reasons behind the pervasive tendency among ostensibly anti-MAGA elites to accommodate authoritarian power and preemptively signal…

Nov 21 •

Why the Second Trump Regime Will Be Far More Dangerous

This will be a much more radical regime – and it will operate under conditions that are vastly more favorable to its extremist cause

Nov 14 •

Why the Stakes in this Election Are So Enormously High

Democracy itself is on the ballot. If Trump wins, the extreme Right will be in a much better position than ever before to abolish it

Nov 4 •

October 2024

September 2024

How Project 2025 Became Toxic and Exposed the Right’s Toxicity

The public history of Project 2025 reveals a lot about how Trump understands power - and how the mainstream discourse (mis-) understands the extreme…

Sep 29 •

The Right is committed to an idea of America as a white Christian homeland. They are determined to purge the nation and radically redraw the boundaries…

Sep 18 •

Liz Cheney and the Problem of the Anti-Trump Republican

Republicans who hold the line against Trump deserve respect. But champions of egalitarian, pluralistic democracy they are not - and that also matters

Sep 9 •

August 2024

July 2024

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