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Can a democracy reverse a slide toward authoritarianism?

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David Corn: Donald Trump's election is a giant step toward authoritarianism in the U.S. Corn: It’s a grim moment as the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its founding.

Corn: There is a tremendous amount of research devoted to democracies descending into autocracies.

But have there been nations heading in that dark direction that put on the brakes?.

Julian Zelizer : Sri Lanka's Wickremesinghe lost his reelection bid to a Marxist politician who had scored only 3 percent of the vote when he ran for president in 2019 .

Zelizer says the recent wave of “democratic recessions” around the world stood out from democratic reversals of the past: Today , democratic downturns tend to “unfold gradually” and don’t “necessarily lead to full-fledged autocracy”.

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