How Bad Is It?: Three Political Scientists Say America Is No Longer a Democracy
Leading scholars Steven Levitsky, Lucan A. Way, and Daniel Ziblatt argue that the United States has entered a period of competitive authoritarianism under Donald Trump’s second term, marked by rapid weaponization of state institutions, erosion of civil liberties, and self-censorship, thou
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