Slouching Toward Autocracy

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America is slouching toward autocracy

By E.J. Dionne Jr.
Columnist
August 19 at 7:13 PM

In their book, “How Democracies Die,” political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt write: “How do elected authoritarians shatter the democratic institutions that are supposed to constrain them? Some do it in one fell swoop. But more often the assault on democracy begins slowly. . . . The erosion of democracy takes place piecemeal, often in baby steps.”