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<div align="left"><font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style='color: rgb(46, 62, 72); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Graphik Meetup", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(246, 247, 248); text-decoration-color: initial;'><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><font color="black"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="word-spacing: 0px; float: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt;'><span style='background: rgb(246, 247, 248); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'>Donald Trump’s
presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we’d be asking:
Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel
Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies
in Europe and <st1:place w:st="on">Latin America</st1:place>, and they believe
the answer is yes. Democracy no longer ends with a bang—in a revolution or
military coup—but with a whimper: the slow, steady weakening of critical
institutions, such as the judiciary and the press, and the gradual erosion of
long-standing political norms. The good news is that there are several exit
ramps on the road to authoritarianism. The bad news is that, by electing Trump,
we have already passed the first one.</span><span style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><br style="word-spacing: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial;">
<br style="word-spacing: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial;">
<span style="background: rgb(246, 247, 248);"><span style="word-spacing: 0px; float: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial;">“The authors argue, with good evidence, that democracies
aren’t destroyed because of the impulses of a single man; they are, instead,
degraded in the course of a partisan tit-for-tat dynamic that degrades norms
over time until one side sees an opening to deliver the death blow. Donald
Trump is not a dictator. But it’s impossible to read How Democracies Die
without worrying that our collective decay of democratic norms may open the
door to one down the line—perhaps even one of an entirely different ideological
persuasion.”</span></span><br style="word-spacing: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial;">
<span style="background: rgb(246, 247, 248);"><span style="word-spacing: 0px; float: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial;">– <em>The Wall Street Journal</em></span></span><br style="word-spacing: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial;">
<br style="word-spacing: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial;">
<span style="background: rgb(246, 247, 248);"><span style="word-spacing: 0px; float: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial;">“Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies have collapsed
elsewhere—not just through violent coups, but more commonly (and insidiously)
through a gradual slide into authoritarianism.... How Democracies Die is a
lucid and essential guide to what can happen here.” – <em>The New York Times</em></span></span><br style="word-spacing: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial;"><em>
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<span style="background: rgb(246, 247, 248);"><span style="word-spacing: 0px; float: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial;"><strong>Supplementary Reading</strong>: <em><strong>On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the
Twentieth Century</strong></em> by Timothy Snyder</span></span></span><br>
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