There’s little doubt that Trump’s regime is a cause for concern. But fears about authoritarianism in the US ignore political realitiesIn the last several weeks, there’s been an uptick in the Trump authoritarianism talk. Matt Yglesias kicked it off the day after Christmas, claiming that Trump had “consolidated power over the institutional Republican party” and was now organizing “an authoritarian regime”.The New Year brought an article (“2018 Will Be a Fight to Save Democracy”) and a tweet from Jonathan Chait: “I read ‘How Democracies Die.’ It convinced me our democracy is more precarious than it looks.” Continue reading…

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2018/jan/13/american-democracy-peril-trump-power