The Strongman Fantasy (updated 11/24)

And dictatorship in real life

(Note to readers: this is a text I wrote in March, looking ahead. Given where we are now in the US, I thought it deserved an update. Please share it.)

Quite a few Americans like the idea of strongman rule.  And now we have an president-elect who vows to persecute the enemy within, and who has proposed a cabinet that seems designed to overturn a republic.

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