Today's blog post:
Historian of fascism Ruth Ben-Ghiat surveys the fragile state of American democracy, and lists the things authoritarians do to undermine democracy.
It terrified me.
https://www.someweekendreading.blog/ben-ghiat-fall-of-democracy/
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