Unsettling parallels between two outrageously unusual leaders

In the widely discussed book How Democracies Die, two Harvard professors argue that modern democracies are no longer overthrown by tanks in the streets, but degenerate from within—through the gradual ...

The historical record since 1945 gives us a picture of how populists operate once they hold political power. The record shows that populism is inimical to liberal democracy, and not a corrective to…