Larry Diamond, sociologist: ‘Trump wants everyone to bend the knee to his imperial will’
The frenetic pace at which the president is dismantling the U.S. government apparatus is hard to process, even for someone like the expert, who intimately understands how autocracies emerge and take root
The winds of democratic decline began blowing a long time ago. Most democratic governments were still celebrating post-Cold War globalization, and the United States pursued its mission to democratize the Middle East — starting with Iraq — even at the cost of an unjustified war.
