The Last Democratic Election

Albert L. Samuels ()
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Albert L. Samuels: Department of Political Science and Geography, Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA 70813, USA

Social Sciences, 2024, vol. 13, issue 11, 1-19

Abstract: Despite leading a violent insurrection to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, dozens of pending felony counts against him, and massive civil fines leveled against him, Donald Trump is poised to not only be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024; but rather, he stands a very plausible chance of being re-elected. This is true, despite the increasingly authoritarian tone of his rhetoric of late and concrete plans that he and those allied with him have openly espoused that, if implemented, will fundamentally dismember the tenets of American democracy. Yet, many Americans appear to be “sleepwalking toward dictatorship”. This essay argues that Donald Trump represents a singularly unique, existential threat to American democracy and outlines specifically how a second Trump administration will destroy American democracy as we have previously known it.

Keywords: authoritarianism; January 6; Donald Trump; rule of law; NATO (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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