Two new books offer contrasting plans — one global, another national — to preserve freedom.
ILL WINDS: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency
By Larry Diamond. Penguin Press. 354 pp. $28.
THE DEMOCRACY FIX: How to Win the Fight for Fair Rules, Fair Courts, and Fair Elections
By Caroline Fredrickson. The New Press. 247 pp. $25.99
How Democracies Die? On Tyranny. How Democracy Ends? Trumpocracy. The Road to Unfreedom? Fascism: A Warning. Can It Happen Here? Authoritarianism in America.
The Trump presidency has produced so many books about the risks to government of, by and for the people that their titles sound like they’re having a conversation. The works started appearing just weeks after Donald Trump’s inauguration, and although the American president is not their sole preoccupation, Trump is their inspiration, the muse of the death-of-democracy bookshelf. Continue reading “Democracy is under attack. But how to protect it while Trump is in the White House?”