Don't necessarily agree with this article but I think the framing is interesting.. Most analysis still treats this as a degradation in progress, something the next election reverses.
Modelled as a transition to oligarchy with democratic aesthetics, the prescriptions flip. You stop trying to fix the process and start building parallel institutions. I would assume that some European allies are reaching the same conclusion right now, just from the outside looking in.
The collapse of control systems is happening. This is happening not only in the USA.
Old news:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
Don't necessarily agree with this article but I think the framing is interesting.. Most analysis still treats this as a degradation in progress, something the next election reverses.
Modelled as a transition to oligarchy with democratic aesthetics, the prescriptions flip. You stop trying to fix the process and start building parallel institutions. I would assume that some European allies are reaching the same conclusion right now, just from the outside looking in.
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