Authoritarianism in America to date lacks its Tocqueville, its defining chronicler, but many latest publications have shed light on what is called, euphemistically, “democratic backsliding.” Some authors, like the historian Anne Applebaum, search to Europe’s fascist resurgence for analogies and influences. Others, amongst them the political scientists Steven Levitsky and https://www.demilked.com/author/fibretarget71/