BIG READ: Three great estates of democracy stumble in the battle against Maga
Less critical than Trump’s authoritarianism is how the judicial, academic and media institutions have responded
20 May 2025 - 05:00
To pivot away from the senile delinquency playing out in the White House and to look at the social landscape beyond the immaculately trimmed north lawn is to witness an even more chilling set of developments unfolding before our eyes: the partial systemic failure of the world’s most self-aggrandising democracy.
There are three great estates on that landscape that supposedly stand aloof from the cut-and-thrust of hoi polloi politics, yet are foundational to the health of democracy, and so are often drawn into the fray: the courts, academia and the media. ..
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