Anti-democracy is all of a sudden in style. Ain’t it grand?

All around, far and near, we are witnessing the rise of Triple-A governments: Autocratic, Authoritarian, Absolutist.

Wondering about notions of public consultation, proper process, debate, governing on what you campaigned and were elected on? Hey, who needs that when it is so simple, so expeditious, so without any serious friction for the time being, to do what tickles the fancy?

Political opposition is withered and weakened, the call for change is in the air, the media are on their heels, and the conditions are primed for opportunist exploitation to produce a democratic backslide.

Sure, more than anyone, we know we’re talking about the guy at the Resolute desk in the Oval Office. He’s autographing executive orders as if he were Jerry in that Seinfeld episode signing the clutch of 12-cent royalty cheques from Japan; repetitive strain injury can’t be long in arriving.

And not to make light of this. Jobs are being lost, important grants are being rescinded, live-saving aid is being stifled, history is being erased, and laws and the courts themselves are being flouted. Just because he says so and no one, not even the more........

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