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Emergent Anti-Democratic Trends

From overt calls to dictatorship among hipster 30-somethings on the “new right” (see Vanity Fair 2022), to religious nationalisms (see the Uncivil Religion digital archive project) to revolutionary violence. This page is something of an in-progress bulletin board of emerging anti-democratic trends.

Some August 2022 features…

Shocked that Trump is rude? You’re not really “getting” what anti-democracy is. See my take here.

An arresting article in Vanity Fair (April 2022)

NYT 8.15.22

For a helpful take on what’s at stake in the “we are a republic, not a democracy” rally cry, read this post by my colleague Seth Masket; he also recommends this Bloomberg piece by Jonathan Bernstein in 2019 (or non paywall version here)

Learn about New-Right influencer Julius Evola (1878-1974)

A question to ask ourselves: Which groups have violence built into their action plan?

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