Erica Owen
@ericaowen.bsky.social
Associate professor of international affairs studying trade, global production, automation, and workers at the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.
Reposted by Erica Owen
Again, when people ask you if you can imagine a time when the US might be classified as a competitive authoritarian/not-fully-democratic regime, the only honest answer is that we already are there now. That's uncomfortable to have to articulate & even more so for folks to hear, but it is what it is.
I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:
February 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Again, when people ask you if you can imagine a time when the US might be classified as a competitive authoritarian/not-fully-democratic regime, the only honest answer is that we already are there now. That's uncomfortable to have to articulate & even more so for folks to hear, but it is what it is.