The Shutdown is America’s Authoritarian Moment
Why a Shutdown is an Authoritarian’s Best Friend — and How They Destabilize Democracies
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7 min readJan 25, 2019
You’d be forgiven for wondering if the US government’s ever going to reopen. This is the longest shutdown in history, hundreds of thousands without pay, going broke, the country as baffled as it is stunned. And yet something about this…
