What Kind of Authoritarian Would Trump Be?
Exploiting a state of exception is a handy script for ruling in uncertain times, since it relies on neither a hegemonic political party nor a far-flung patronage network. Though it has attracted less attention, this is the model of backdoor authoritarianism that Donald Trump would most likely seek to apply if elected to another term.
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CAMBRIDGE – Following Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election in 2016, many pundits predicted a worldwide breakdown of democracy, and some warned of civil war. But, aside from Africa’s Sahel region, military coups remain rare, and civil wars rarer still. Instead, democracies have tended to break down through civilian coups.