The Plague of American Authoritarianism

(Before It's News)

By Henry A. Giroux, CounterPunch

It is too easy to believe in a binary logic that categorizes a country as either strictly authoritarian or strictly democratic, and leaves no room for the possibility of a mixture of the two. American politics today suggests a more updated if not different form of authoritarianism.

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