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Levitsky and Ziblatt acknowledge that Trump’s presidency could end in a variety of ways, ranging from reinvigorating American democracy to imposing a white nationalist agenda on the United States. But they argue that the most probable outcome is simply “democracy without solid guardrails.” Trump could profoundly weaken U.S. democracy without totally destroying it.
It’s perfectly possible for the U.S. to keep getting more polarized and its democratic norms to keep declining. If neither party wins a solid majority, both can turn to increasingly antidemocratic and underhanded tactics to try and win power. At first, neither party would necessarily take over…