Ziblatt compares politics in United States to Western Europe
“There are strong, around 20, 30 percent support for radical right, extremist sometimes anti-democratic political parties across western Europe and so in some sense we are not unique in that respect…. The difference is that in the United States ……
“There are strong, around 20, 30 percent support for radical right, extremist sometimes anti-democratic political parties across western Europe and so in some sense we are not unique in that respect…. The difference is that in the United States … we have a whole set of institutions that allow political minorities to exert outsize influence, in the selection of the president, in the control of the Senate, in the control of the judiciary.” – Daniel Ziblatt
