For example, a mistake of the US press has been to continue with their learned script that assumes we are a fully functioning democracy. The academy should not make that same mistake.
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I've taught the US as a potential backsliding case in CP for years now, and I think most comparativists teaching intro classes question the sharp divide between regime types.
aug 28, 2025, 2:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes. I don't think many people, even teaching about the US made a false binary about democracy, but there was certainly an assumption that the US was more fully one than it is now.
aug 28, 2025, 3:13 pm • 2 0 • view
But the US is a republic, and explicitly *not* a democracy. Politics, like any other subject, needs to be understood by its practitioners. Our issue is a massive lack of expertise in the mainstream, hoping that "democracy" and voting will save us instead. Nope. It gives us MAGA and blue-MAGA.
aug 28, 2025, 9:08 pm • 0 0 • view