It Can’t Happen Here — How Democracies Become Vulnerable from Within
What if democratic breakdown can occur while the institutions of democracy still appear to be intact?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis as an entry point, this investigation examines how economic insecurity, political spectacle, nationalism, institutional accommodation, and public passivity can interact to make democratic systems increasingly vulnerable to concentrated power.
Lewis imagines Berzelius Windrip winning office through familiar political processes while presenting authoritarian policies…
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