The Triggered States of Liberalism

How Democracies Die – Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt (Crown Books)

I weep for the future of the United States…not because of the ridiculous, faulty case the authors of How Democracies Die, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt try desperately to concoct, but more so because the pair are professors of government at Harvard University and charged with mold the minds of the snowflake generation.

Levitsky and Ziblatt seem to be clueless to the fact that they try to make the case in their introduction by citing examples of how global democratic nation states have been brought to their knees by liberal, socialist policies and try to equate that to the policies of Donald Trump.

Levitsky and Ziblatt fail miserably due to the simple fact that their argument on its face is based on a faulty premise. Liberals love to argue that we live in a democracy, but anyone with even a passing knowledge of the U.S. Constitution should know that we live in a Constitutional Republic. Pure democracies are mob rule. If we were a democracy, then Hillary Clinton would be President and California would have elected her, hence the need for the electoral college to level the playing field for all states.

Levitsky and Ziblatt are clearly suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, choosing to wallow in self-pity not pity for the nation, rather than enjoying the clear cut successes of Trump’s first year and more to come.