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The E.U. Puts Its Foot Down on the Rule of Law
“The European Union finally drew the line this year and declared that disbursements from the E.U. budget and a special coronavirus relief fund would be contingent on each member’s adherence to the rule of law. Hungary and Poland have shamelessly retaliated” (NYT Editorial Board, 2020).
The Apocalyptic Politics of the Populist Right
“Mr. Trump has wantonly rejected the outcome of the recent vote. Invoking allegations of fraud, he has made it clear that for him, conceding defeat is a non-starter...his decision to ignore the will of the people has ramifications for democracy well beyond the United States” (Ivan Krastev, 2020).
Biden Can’t Be F.D.R. He Could Still Be L.B.J.
“President-elect Joe Biden intuited that legions of Americans wanted a return to normal — a restoration, a reversion. The earnest hope in his promise “to restore the soul of America” was that the same country that uplifted Donald Trump and let itself be consumed by internet-fueled culture wars could heed its better angels again” (Anand Giridharadas, 2020).
American Democracy Survives Its Brush With Death
“Looking at the bigger picture, Democrats were done in by extreme voices that Mr. Trump was able to link to their party. Defunding the police will never be popular outside a few lefty precincts. The whiff of socialism helped kill Democrats in Florida” (Timothy Egan, 2020).
America’s Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent
“From an international perspective,...Trump is just one more example of the many populists on the right who have risen to power around the world...these people win elections but subvert democratic norms: by criminalizing dissent, suppressing or demonizing the media, harassing the opposition, and deploying extra-legal mechanisms whenever possible” (Zeynep Tufekci, 2020).
Coming Storms: The Return of Great-Power War
“Tensions persist among today’s great powers” and China and the United States “are on a collision course fueled by the dynamics of a power transition and their competition for status and prestige, and without a change in direction, war between them in the coming decades is...probable” (Christopher Lane, 2020).
How Trump Lowered America’s Standing in the World
“The values of liberty, democracy, freedom of expression and the rule of law for which the United States has stood, albeit with conspicuous failings, over the postwar decades have been abandoned….the United States has become a values-free international actor under a president who has led a values-free life” (Roger Cohen, 2020).
The Encroachment of the Unsayable
“Our compromised liberalism has left a generation of writers weighing their every word for fear that a wrong one could wreck their professional lives. The result is safer, but also more timid; more correct, but also less interesting..it is as deadly an enemy of writing as has ever been devised” (Bret Stephens, 2020).
The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights
“The pandemic has been terrible not only for the human body but also for the body politic...Covid-19 'has fuelled a crisis for democracy around the world,' argue Sarah Repucci and Amy Slipowitz of Freedom House” (The Economist, 2020).
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