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The Ezra Klein Show · June 20, 2024 · 75m

Is This How Democracy Ends?

The Ezra Klein Show

Klein interviews multiple scholars on democratic backsliding worldwide — Hungary, Turkey, India, the United States. The consensus: democracies don't die through coups anymore; they're slowly hollowed out from within.

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Canon

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Falsehood spreads faster — and authoritarian leaders weaponize this asymmetry
Klein traces how autocratic-leaning leaders exploit the speed gap between false claims and fact-checks, flooding the zone with misinformation faster than democratic institutions can respond.
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Highlights

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Modern democracies die slowly, not suddenly — through gradual erosion of norms, not coups
Klein synthesizes research from Levitsky, Ziblatt, and others: 21st-century democratic death looks like erosion (packing courts, weakening press, bending rules) not revolution.
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