{"id":4863,"date":"2022-04-17T13:35:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T20:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=4863"},"modified":"2022-04-17T13:35:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T20:35:04","slug":"how-far-america-has-slipped-away-from-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/04\/17\/how-far-america-has-slipped-away-from-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"How far America has slipped away from democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Politico, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2022\/04\/16\/history-shows-trump-personality-cult-end-00024941\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this interview with Ruth Ben-Ghiat<\/a> &#8211; An expert on autocracy assesses how far America has slipped away from democracy, and what it will take to get it back.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ben-Ghiat: One of the big talking points and strategy of right-wing authoritarianism, is to label democratic systems as tyrannical. Mussolini was the first to say that democracies are tyrannical, democracies are the problem. And there\u2019s a whole century\u2019s worth of the strategy of calling sitting Democrats, who you want to overthrow, dictators. Biden as a social dictator, [is] a phony talking point. It has so many articulations from \u201cThey\u2019re forcing us to wear masks.\u201d And you have people like DeSantis who are doing this very subversive thing of saying, \u201cFlorida\u2019s the free state. You can have refuge from the dictatorship of Biden here.\u201d And what this is designed to do is discredit the sitting democratic administration in order to create, a myth of freedom. January 6 was actually marketed as the violence [being] in the service of freedom, and you were overthrowing a dictator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Politico, this interview with Ruth Ben-Ghiat &#8211; An expert on autocracy assesses how far America has slipped away from democracy, and what it will take to get it back. Ben-Ghiat: One of the big talking points and strategy of right-wing authoritarianism, is to label democratic systems as tyrannical. Mussolini was the first to say &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/04\/17\/how-far-america-has-slipped-away-from-democracy\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,19],"tags":[219,4018,4017,4013,4014,532,4016,1431,4015],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-4863","6":"format-standard","7":"category-politics","8":"category-thinking-about","9":"category-trump","10":"post_tag-authoritarianism","11":"post_tag-autocratic","12":"post_tag-bully","13":"post_tag-democratic","14":"post_tag-democratic-systems","15":"post_tag-democrats","16":"post_tag-gop","17":"post_tag-republican","18":"post_tag-right-wing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4864,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions\/4864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}