"Destruction Is So Much Easier Than Construction"

"Hysterical hyperbole? I would love to think so. But during seven weeks in the US this summer, I was shaken every day by the speed and executive brutality of President Trump's assault on what had seemed settled norms of US democracy and by the desperate weakness of resistance to that assault. There's a growing body of international evidence to suggest that once a liberal democracy has been eroded, it’s very difficult to restore it."

At The Guardian, Timothy Garton Ash writes that "Americans have 400 days to save their democracy."