Timothy Snyder, a professor of history at Yale University, notes that America’s Founding Fathers “tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to …
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