Democracy Awakening
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Democracy Awakening

Notes on the State of America


Democracy Under Assault

by David Meyer

Boston College history professor Heather Cox Richardson offers an articulate warning of the collapse of American democracy in the face of rising authoritarianism.

Boston College history professor Heather Cox Richardson — author of How the South Won the Civil War — argues that Donald Trump and his followers pose an existental threat to American democracy.

Schism

Today’s political schism in the United States dates to the 1930s. Republicans had controlled Congress in the 1920s, and their pro-business policies resulted in mass misery during the Great Depression. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs expanded public safety, established worker protections, and raised taxes on the rich.


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