Damon Linker at Persuasion:
How should we understand the character of the American political present?
Are we living through the radical transformation of American democracy into a competitive (or even uncompetitive) authoritarian system?
Or are we merely experiencing the fulfillment of longstanding antiliberal and anti-democratic trends in American politics in general and the Republican Party in particular?
Or do we merely find ourselves at a rare (but nonetheless democratically legitimate) moment of rapid constitutional evolution to the right after nearly a century of consistently leftward shifts?
These possibilities form the core of one of the best essays I’ve read about the second Trump administration.
More here.
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