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Is the assault on democracy stronger than we think and nearing permanent control?

Trump and the billionaires and foreign fascists he's aligned with are both stronger than most think and weaker.

Today I'll deal with the stronger part tomorrow the weaker.

We're living in a moment when the line between democracy and dictatorship is far less clear than we like to believe.

In a recent analysis by Stephen Levitsky, co-author of how democracies die puts it, we've already

moved on to the midpoint along the spectrum between democracy and dictatorship where

competitive authoritarianism lives.

That's the world of regimes that hold elections but use their control over the nation's systems

to skew the rules, restrict opposition, weaponize

institutions, vandalize the truth, and destroy and ignore democratic norms. We're more than halfway

down that road in just 10 short months. In the United States today, it's impossible to ignore how

much of that template was laid out by Victor Orban to the Heritage Foundation,

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