University Diaries » ‘[W]hile Trump is an extreme manifestation, his authoritarian impulses are not purely idiosyncratic. Skepticism of democracy as a value has deep roots in conservative thought. While conservative parties in other countries accommodate[d] themselves to democratic control over the economy generations ago, the American right has never relinquished its belief that allowing majorities to redistribute income at the ballot box is a fundamental violation of liberty… [W]hen Trump disappears from the scene, the authoritarian threat will not.’

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‘[W]hile Trump is an extreme manifestation, his authoritarian impulses are not purely idiosyncratic. Skepticism of democracy as a value has deep roots in conservative thought. While conservative parties in other countries accommodate[d] themselves to democratic control over the economy generations ago, the American right has never relinquished its belief that allowing majorities to redistribute income at the ballot box is a fundamental violation of liberty… [W]hen Trump disappears from the scene, the authoritarian threat will not.’

A reminder, from Jonathan Chait, that those of us fond of liberty need to rev our eternal vigilance engines.

Margaret Soltan, June 9, 2021 8:06AM
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