Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images In 2018, Harvard professor Steven Levitsky co-authored How Democracies Die , a hit book that explored the way strongmen leaders, including Donald Trump , can erode once-stable political systems. How Democracies Die resonated in the middle of Trump’s first term, and made Levitsky a famous name among anxious liberals. Unfortunately, his work is even more relevant to American politics seven years later. Earlier this year, Levitsky and Lucan A.

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