“Honest to god, I’ve never seen anything like it . . . We look at these comparative cases in the 21st century, like Hungary and Poland and Turkey. And in a lot of respects, this is worse . . . These first two months have been much more aggressively authoritarian than almost any other comparable case I know of democratic backsliding.”
Steven Levitsky, co-author of How Democracies Die
Quoted in “Letters from an American”, March 20, 2025