A Reluctant Recognition Standing alongside the likes of Vladimir Putin, Jair Bolsonaro, and Kim Jong-Un, Mexican President Andres …
4 Authoritarian Tendencies In Just 5 Days: Trump During the Longest Week of 2020
From not conceding the election to calling the election “the greatest fraud in the history of our country” Donald Trump has seemingly gone out of his way to attack the norms and institutions that …
America’s Acceptance of Populism
On June 16, 2015, the landscape of American politics and democratic norms would drastically change when former reality TV star, and soon to be 45th President, Donald Trump formally announced his run …
Authoritarianism and Donald Trump
President of China, Xi Jinping, in a recent speech to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC), announced that China plans on opening a “super-sized” economy. The APEC forum also includes …
Ways of Discussing Politics
Are there better ways to engage in politics? How did the United States respond to the results of the 2020 Presidential Election? In this blog post, I talk about the importance of discussing politics …
Trump and Democratic Backsliding in the United States
President Trump is a major source of democratic backsliding in the U.S.; it is time that he accepts defeat in the 2020 election. “What they’re doing is using COVID to steal an election. They’re …
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Suburban White Women, Polarization, and Democratic Erosion
It has long been established that party polarization can contribute to democratic erosion. As Steven Levitsky and Deniel Ziblatt have pointed out, when extremists emerge as serious electoral …
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Wondering Why Democratic Norms Eroded in the 2020 Election? It’s More Than Just Trumpism
In the wake of the 2020 election, political pundits have been shocked by the complicity of Republican voters in one of the most glaring instances of democratic erosion in American politics. Half of …