One key point the authors make is that the reason we have Donald Trump as our president is that the leaders of the Republican Party did not utilize the "gatekeeping" functions that all democracies must use to keep autocrats out of office. The authors talk at length about other countries that did poor gatekeeping and those that did stellar gatekeeping, even though they had to reach across the aisle to make it happen.
It's a wonderful book for a less-than-wonderful time.
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