"In a real sense, US democracy has died this month. It doesn’t mean it’s dead for the long term but at this moment the idea of an accountable representative system, as the framers of the constitution wrote it, is no longer present.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/07/trump-viktor-orban-electoral-autocracy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/07/trump-viktor-orban-electoral-autocracy
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-But, we can't share Rorty's optimism that the US could come back after that.
Others will take over. https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/29/magazine/fraternity-reigns.html