President Biden speaks at a Department of Defense farewell ceremony, at Joint Base Myers-Henderson Hall in Fort Myer, Virginia, January 16, 2025. REUTERS When Donald Trump is sworn in Monday ...

voters have reelected personalist leaders because the party elite refused to condemn the leader’s anti-democratic actions, sending the signal that all is well with democracy. When senior party ...

In both, the outcome of what was a manifestly democratic process confounded elite expectations ... At such moments, they are all-in for democracy. Yet when the exercise of democracy at home ...

Thanks to Trump, the Republicans became a party of primary voters, while the Democrats remained under elite control ... in 1972 Democrats tried to embrace democracy by giving primaries more ...