According to political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, for a political party to accept losing and continue to support America’s political system as-is in the face of uncertainty about the party’s future, two conditions must hold. One, its supporters must feel secure about losing today; that ruinous consequences will not be unleashed tomorrow; and […]
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Republicans fear by sticking to conventional political rules, they’ll lose even more. Economically, they’ve already lost much. According to Levitsky and Ziblatt, authors of Why Democracies Die, this sort of “do or die” strategy is a threat to democratic stability. How so? Economics provides the underlying clue. Their congressional voting districts, rural and ex-urban, are […]
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The boiled frog story was huge at the yellow brick church on 27th Street in Ogden, Utah. The Sawyer kids entered dutifully during the 1950’s, but without parents. Others had moms and dads accompanying them. I felt unsupported, trying to figure out how the world worked; how I should act within it. There were important […]
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