Steven Levitsky on why the U.S. is now a competitive authoritarian regime and can't be considered a democracy. www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n... - ThreadSky

yusufsarfati.bsky.social • 17 days ago

Steven Levitsky on why the U.S. is now a competitive authoritarian regime and can't be considered a democracy.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5372334/harvard-professor-offers-a-grim-assessment-of-american-democracy-under-trump

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ecvt.bsky.social•17 days ago

True!

challenger-grey.bsky.social•14 days ago

When this shit is over, the first person to arrest is Stephen Miller for his design in taking down democracy.

goodgreatokayish.bsky.social•17 days ago

📌

miguelmallet.bsky.social•17 days ago

I wish I could say he's wrong, but...

dahadzic.bsky.social•17 days ago

More like a political marketplace - a system of governance run on the basis of personal transactions in which political services and allegiances are exchanged for material rewards

comradedelaune.bsky.social•14 days ago

It's the people that think it was ever a democracy that get me. The founding fathers refused to allow actual democracy because the populace was uneducated and would vote wrong in their opinion. Democracy only means one thing, one citizen gets one vote. That has never existed in white America.

taylorgrayson.bsky.social•17 days ago

"competitive authoritarianism. These are regimes that constitutionally continue to be democracies...the opposition is legal...competes for power. ... but the problem is that systematic...abuse of power tilts the playing field against the opposition. "

dolorosasantos.bsky.social•14 days ago

He's selling access to himself through his meme coin.

Yes, democracy is lost.

printersflower.bsky.social•14 days ago

Clinton Coffee Talks, on steroids. Conservatives don't care this time.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-08-mn-40443-story.html

dolorosasantos.bsky.social•14 days ago

Pete Hegseth's signalgate is a hoax!

LOCK HER UP!

thedanadecker.bsky.social•14 days ago

Levitsky is being cited plenty this first 100 days about his view of the (dire) present situation.

But *nobody* is citing Levitsky's prescient thoughts about how we got here.

My guess is the demographic change he mentions is due to immigration, which isn't allowed to be discussed for some reason.

stevereally.bsky.social•17 days ago

If you're open to using alt text for images, including screenshots of text, so as to increase accessibility, convenient usefulness, and reach, there are handy OCR tools built into iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac.

wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social•10 days ago

Plus the reverse, inline; getting text from an (already posted) image/screengrab, by replying with @alt-text.bsky.social

stevereally.bsky.social•10 days ago

That tool does have value, I'm glad it exists, and I'm happy for people to know about it and take advantage of it as appropriate, but it's always better for the original image itself to include the alt text, if whoever might be posting it is up for it.

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