Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America - Cass R. Sunstein
Category: Political
Tags: Political
What makes Trump immune is that he is not a president within the context of a healthy Republican government. He is a cult leader of a movement that has taken over a political party - and he specifically campaigned on a platform of one-man rule. This fact permeates Can It Happen Here? . . . which concludes, if you read between the lines, that it already has. - New York Times Book Review, Several of the contributorsagree that American politics is susceptible to creeping authoritarianism and provide the intellectual underpinning. - Washington Post, With the election of Donald J. Trump, many people on both the left and right feared that Americas 240-year-old grand experiment in democracy was coming to an end, and that Sinclair Lewis satirical novel, It Cant Happen Here, written during the dark days of the 1930s, could finally be coming true. Is the democratic freedom that the United States symbolizes really secure? Can authoritarianism happen in America?, Acclaimed legal scholar, Harvard P
