Robert Ivie’s new op-ed, “If Democracy Dies, So What?”, appears in Common Dreams (May 23). It develops the point that, whether we like it or not, the 2024 general election is a referendum on Joe Biden only insofar as he represents the alternative to authoritarian rule. If he wins as the candidate for democracy, the politics of persuasion in a pluralistic polity and governance by checks and balances continue; if he loses, rule by demagoguery and coercion begins.
Read it here: https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/democracy-vs-authoritarianism
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