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Showing Original Post only (View all)'That's terrifying': Anderson Cooper shaken after hearing Harvard scholars' 'dark' predictions on US [View all]
https://www.rawstory.com/how-democracies-die/CNN host Anderson Cooper was left shaken on Tuesday after two Harvard scholars explained how the Republican Party has radicalized itself against democracy.
Political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of the bestselling book How Democracies Die, appeared on Cooper's program to explain how their studies of democratic failures bode ill tidings for the future of the American republic.
"It is pretty dark," said Levitsky. "When we wrote How Democracies Die four years ago, we were worried about the Republican Party because they allowed Donald Trump to be elected. They sort of dropped the ball and failed to protect our democracy from an authoritarian demagogue. But we did not expect that the entire Republican Party would evolve into an anti-democratic force, and that's where they are today."
Ziblatt, meanwhile, compared past instances in which democracies in European countries survived anti-democratic insurgencies, but he said that stopping those insurgencies depended on members of establishment parties standing firmly against them.
The Harvard scholar did not think that today's Republican Party is currently up to the task.
"Looking where we are compared to other countries, it's not looking very promising," he said.
Political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of the bestselling book How Democracies Die, appeared on Cooper's program to explain how their studies of democratic failures bode ill tidings for the future of the American republic.
"It is pretty dark," said Levitsky. "When we wrote How Democracies Die four years ago, we were worried about the Republican Party because they allowed Donald Trump to be elected. They sort of dropped the ball and failed to protect our democracy from an authoritarian demagogue. But we did not expect that the entire Republican Party would evolve into an anti-democratic force, and that's where they are today."
Ziblatt, meanwhile, compared past instances in which democracies in European countries survived anti-democratic insurgencies, but he said that stopping those insurgencies depended on members of establishment parties standing firmly against them.
The Harvard scholar did not think that today's Republican Party is currently up to the task.
"Looking where we are compared to other countries, it's not looking very promising," he said.
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'That's terrifying': Anderson Cooper shaken after hearing Harvard scholars' 'dark' predictions on US [View all]
CousinIT
Oct 2021
OP
In January, when they received the application, the wait time was stated to be five months.
Grasswire2
Oct 2021
#20
The democrats stand firmly in the way of this..there are way more of us than there of them
PortTack
Oct 2021
#4
their 'progress' depends on dem/progs/media continuing the incredible stupidity of ignoring
certainot
Oct 2021
#36
Yup. It's up to the Biden Admin., the Democrats in Congress, and us. VOTE.
Joinfortmill
Oct 2021
#11
So why can't Fox news be shut down for promoting and supporting treason? nt
Binkie The Clown
Oct 2021
#21
Does freedom of speech include inciting to treason? I don't think it does. nt
Binkie The Clown
Oct 2021
#45