Voters are turning out in droves to cut autocrats down to size
The Boston Globe · Amanda Taub ·
Outraged electorates have turned out in record numbers, delivering indisputable victories that have checked the autocratic advance.
It’s not just the US midterms: An antiauthoritarian wave appears to be crashing over elections around the world.
In country after country that has struggled with creeping authoritarianism and democratic decay, outraged electorates have turned out in record numbers, delivering indisputable victories that have checked the autocratic advance.
The United States crossed into “competitive authoritarianism” during President Trump’s second term, according to eminent political scientists Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way. Voters issued a stunning rebuke in the midterms, when an expected blue wave turned out to be a blue tsunami.
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