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Is the U.S. sliding into competitive authoritarianism?

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Is the U.S. sliding into competitive authoritarianism?

October 15, 202616:34
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Ever since U.S. President Donald Trump took office for the second time, he's been criticized for eroding democracy and the rule of law. Now, political scientist Lucan Way, argues that the United States has definitively crossed the line into a system of what he calls competitive authoritarianism. Lucan Way, a Distinguished Professor of Democracy in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, explains what that looks like, and whether it can be reversed.