A patriot-or so he says-who may well be doing more damage to American democracy than anyone since Jefferson Davis. A man who will talk to anyone willing to listen (and to many who aren’t). A recovered crack addict, no less, who laughs good-naturedly when jokes are made at his expense. Here is what you probably don’t imagine: an affable, self-made midwesterner, one of those goofy businessmen who makes his own infomercials. Maybe you think of a jackbooted thug leading a horde of men in white sheets, all carrying burning crosses.
Maybe your nightmare is a rogue general, hijacking the nuclear football.
When you contemplate the end of democracy in America, what kind of person do you think will bring it about? Maybe you picture a sinister billionaire in a bespoke suit, slipping brown envelopes to politicians. About the author: Anne Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic, a fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, and the author of Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism.
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