Stephan: This is a brilliant assessment, with which I agree, of the current state of America by a Canadian scholar, and I urge you to read it. Two points I would add. Canada is absolutely not the only country beginning to consider what it will mean for their national interest if America becomes a White supremacy christofascist authoritarian nation. Second, the failure of the Department of Justice to hold accountable Trump or any of his major enablers responsible for prompting an insurrection to overthrow America's democracy. No one has been arrested. No one has been charged. There are no ongoing trials.
If you don't hold such people accountable, you may be sure they will do it again, and more competently
Washington,Jan. 6, 2021: A police flash-bang grenade illuminates Trump protesters outside the U.S. Capitol, which they stormedafter a provocative speech by the outgoing president. The Capitol insurrection was a wake-up call about the vulnerabilities in American democracy. Credit: Leah Millis/Reuters
By 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence. By 2030, if not sooner, the country could be governed by a right-wing dictatorship.
We mustn’t dismiss these possibilities just because they seem ludicrous or too horrible to imagine. In 2014, the suggestion that Donald Trump would become president would also have struck nearly everyone as absurd. But today we live in a world where the absurd regularly becomes real and the horrible commonplace.
Leading American academics are now actively addressing the prospect of a fatal weakening of U.S. democracy.
This past November, more than 150 professors of politics, government, political economy and international relations appealed to Congress to pass the Freedom to Vote Act, which would protect the integrity of US elections but is now stalled in the Senate. This is […]
