"In a new essay for the journal Foreign Affairs, " The Price of American Authoritarianism, " the scholars of government assert that President Trump's rapid consolidation of power in the first year of his second term has tipped the United States into authoritarianism-specifically, into competitive authoritarianism, in which elections persist but the ruling party rigs the system in its favor. The panel discuss how they arrived at their conclusions and suggest that not all is lost: America's authoritarian moment could be temporary."
"The New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz is joined by the political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, who teach at Harvard, and Lucan A. Way, who teaches at the University of Toronto, for an installment of "How Bad Is It?," a monthly series on the health of American democracy."
""The United States is in a very good place to resist," Levitsky says. "Civil society is very robust and so there is a very high likelihood that Trump will fail.""
President Trump's rapid consolidation of power in the first year of his second term has produced a shift toward competitive authoritarianism in the United States. Competitive authoritarianism preserves elections while allowing the ruling party to rig institutions and outcomes in its favor. Despite this authoritarian turn, strong civic institutions and societal resilience create meaningful capacity for resistance. The current authoritarian moment could be temporary, and robust civil society significantly raises the likelihood of failure for a lasting authoritarian consolidation.
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