<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><span style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 30px auto; padding: 0px 30px; max-width: 544px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="primary-cli cli cli-text" dir="auto"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Eight years, two impeachments, four indictments, 34 felony convictions, and one attempted coup later, the GOP is now fully 100% Trump’s party, and that speaks less to Trump’s strength, and much more to Republican fear and cowardice"</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-republican-takeover_n_66998a0ae4b047588a4b2aac</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">-J.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></p></span><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Jochen Fromm <jofr@cas-group.net> </div><div>Date: 7/19/24 9:45 PM (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> </div><div>Subject: [FRIAM] How democracies die </div><div><br></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Google Sans"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I am reading "How democracies die" from Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky who warn that modern democracies die slowly and from the inside. They particularly warn about Trump and argue that political parties in the US play an essential role in the defense of democracy, because they have a gatekeeper function. By nominating Trump again as a presidential candidate the Republican party has failed to fulfill this function as if the Jan 6 Capitol attack never happened. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Google Sans"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/306746/how-democracies-die-by-ziblatt-steven-levitsky-and-daniel/9780241381359</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Google Sans"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Google Sans"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">-J.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Google Sans"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></p></body></html>