A modest proposal for the assisted demise of democracy

For which babies boiled and fricasseed provide both inspiration and a cautionary tale. With thanks and apologies to J. Swift.

Voters participate in a caucus meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, on Feb. 3. If the assisted death of democracy is presented as a more of a gift than a theft, the assailants might just make a clean getaway, writes Lisa Van Dusen.Flickr photograph by Phil Roeder

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

February 12, 2020

It is a melancholy object to those tethered by screens ubiquitous when they see the sorry spectacle of democracy in its current state of abashment. The sudden, precipitous reversal of fortune for a system of governance that has, for so long, represented at least in aspirational form the highest ide...

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