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On “How to Build an Autocracy” by David Frum

February 1, 2017 by AndrewRCalderon

As I see it, Frum’s mission in this article was not to incite panic. I believe it was to galvanize the final check and balance in any democracy, aptly captured in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index as “political participation.” The wealthy have long participated in our democracy with their money and their power. The public too wields great power. Numbers. The sheer amount of people who turned out for protests, who phoned Senators in opposition to the refugee ban, are a formidable force. They are the separation between this world and the apocalyptic specter President Trump has conjured in the public imagination.

Categories: PEOPLE • Tags: america, Congress, David Frum, Democrats, Donald Trump, GOP, How to Build an Autocracy, The Atlantic, The People, The Senate

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