Indeed. Well-organized conservative parties with elite gatekeepers are very important for the birth and continued existence of democracy (Ziblatt 2017, 2018)
September 23, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Indeed. Well-organized conservative parties with elite gatekeepers are very important for the birth and continued existence of democracy (Ziblatt 2017, 2018)
"Can Trump’s Damage to Democracy Be Undone?"
'How Democracies Die' co-author Daniel Ziblatt speaks to Zeteo's John Harwood and warns that it's 'easier to destroy a democracy than to build' one.
'How Democracies Die' co-author Daniel Ziblatt speaks to Zeteo's John Harwood and warns that it's 'easier to destroy a democracy than to build' one.
Can Trump’s Damage to Democracy Be Undone?
'How Democracies Die' co-author Daniel Ziblatt warns that it's 'easier to destroy a democracy than to build' one.
zeteo.com
April 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Can Trump’s Damage to Democracy Be Undone?"
'How Democracies Die' co-author Daniel Ziblatt speaks to Zeteo's John Harwood and warns that it's 'easier to destroy a democracy than to build' one.
'How Democracies Die' co-author Daniel Ziblatt speaks to Zeteo's John Harwood and warns that it's 'easier to destroy a democracy than to build' one.
"America’s slide into authoritarianism is reversible. But no one has ever defeated autocracy from the sidelines."
—Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, and Daniel Ziblatt.
—Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, and Daniel Ziblatt.
March 19, 2026 at 11:51 AM
"America’s slide into authoritarianism is reversible. But no one has ever defeated autocracy from the sidelines."
—Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, and Daniel Ziblatt.
—Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, and Daniel Ziblatt.
When Ziblatt is talking about the lessons from Weimar for the present day, you listen. Chilling.
August 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
When Ziblatt is talking about the lessons from Weimar for the present day, you listen. Chilling.
So many Ziblatt moments. So many failing conservative parties.
December 7, 2024 at 2:22 PM
So many Ziblatt moments. So many failing conservative parties.
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September 20, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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More people need to read Ziblatt and it really shows.
July 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
More people need to read Ziblatt and it really shows.
Daniel Ziblatt--co-author of the book on how democracies die--is alarmed by the success so far of Trump's attempted murder. He discusses loyalists in power ministries,
consolidation of personal power, and the abdication by political and civic elites.
I highly recommend it.
youtu.be/bVNX_PTQkRA?...
consolidation of personal power, and the abdication by political and civic elites.
I highly recommend it.
youtu.be/bVNX_PTQkRA?...
Our Democracy IS Actually Dying (w/ Daniel Ziblatt) | Bulwark on Sunday
YouTube video by The Bulwark
youtu.be
May 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Daniel Ziblatt--co-author of the book on how democracies die--is alarmed by the success so far of Trump's attempted murder. He discusses loyalists in power ministries,
consolidation of personal power, and the abdication by political and civic elites.
I highly recommend it.
youtu.be/bVNX_PTQkRA?...
consolidation of personal power, and the abdication by political and civic elites.
I highly recommend it.
youtu.be/bVNX_PTQkRA?...
In "How Democracies Die," Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt wrote that democratic backsliding "begins at the ballot box." Strongmen get democratically elected, then turn institutions into "political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not."
April 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
In "How Democracies Die," Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt wrote that democratic backsliding "begins at the ballot box." Strongmen get democratically elected, then turn institutions into "political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not."
This Court, and the right more generally, is not merely undermining democracy. They are targeting multiracial democracy.
That has always been the dividing line.
And as Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue, it is multiracial democracy or no democracy at all.
That has always been the dividing line.
And as Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue, it is multiracial democracy or no democracy at all.
April 30, 2026 at 2:02 AM
This Court, and the right more generally, is not merely undermining democracy. They are targeting multiracial democracy.
That has always been the dividing line.
And as Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue, it is multiracial democracy or no democracy at all.
That has always been the dividing line.
And as Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue, it is multiracial democracy or no democracy at all.
1 American Authoritarianism
The US is still a democracy, but political scientists Ziblatt (co-author of “How Democracies Die”), Lucan A. Way (“Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War”) write in a Foreign Affairs essay that America has slid into “competitive authoritarianism>2
The US is still a democracy, but political scientists Ziblatt (co-author of “How Democracies Die”), Lucan A. Way (“Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War”) write in a Foreign Affairs essay that America has slid into “competitive authoritarianism>2
December 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
1 American Authoritarianism
The US is still a democracy, but political scientists Ziblatt (co-author of “How Democracies Die”), Lucan A. Way (“Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War”) write in a Foreign Affairs essay that America has slid into “competitive authoritarianism>2
The US is still a democracy, but political scientists Ziblatt (co-author of “How Democracies Die”), Lucan A. Way (“Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War”) write in a Foreign Affairs essay that America has slid into “competitive authoritarianism>2
Very much worth listening, I think, to Harvard political scientist Daniel Ziblatt on why the first four months of Trump's second term have been bad--and why things could well get worse.
youtu.be/bVNX_PTQkRA?...
youtu.be/bVNX_PTQkRA?...
Our Democracy IS Actually Dying (w/ Daniel Ziblatt) | Bulwark on Sunday
YouTube video by The Bulwark
youtu.be
May 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Very much worth listening, I think, to Harvard political scientist Daniel Ziblatt on why the first four months of Trump's second term have been bad--and why things could well get worse.
youtu.be/bVNX_PTQkRA?...
youtu.be/bVNX_PTQkRA?...
Morgen sind: Daniel Ziblatt, Thomas Weber, Daniel Siemens, Tamara Ehs, Heike Klüver u.v.a. im GORKI Theater in Berlin. Und im Livestream ab 19.30h – im Rat der Geschichte: Was hilft gegen die AfD?
www.gorki.de/de/der-rat-d...
www.gorki.de/de/der-rat-d...
November 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Morgen sind: Daniel Ziblatt, Thomas Weber, Daniel Siemens, Tamara Ehs, Heike Klüver u.v.a. im GORKI Theater in Berlin. Und im Livestream ab 19.30h – im Rat der Geschichte: Was hilft gegen die AfD?
www.gorki.de/de/der-rat-d...
www.gorki.de/de/der-rat-d...
Harvard-Professor Daniel Ziblatt erforscht, wie Demokratien sterben. Donald Trump werde viel Schaden anrichten, sagt er. So schlimm wie in Ungarn werde es aber nicht.
Daniel Ziblatt: "Trump wird so weit gehen wie möglich"
Harvard-Professor Daniel Ziblatt erforscht, wie Demokratien sterben. Donald Trump werde viel Schaden anrichten, sagt er. So schlimm wie in Ungarn werde es aber nicht.
www.zeit.de
December 10, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Harvard-Professor Daniel Ziblatt erforscht, wie Demokratien sterben. Donald Trump werde viel Schaden anrichten, sagt er. So schlimm wie in Ungarn werde es aber nicht.
Daniel Ziblatt specializes in chronicling how the conduct of conservative/financial elites at critical moments historically determined how far authoritarian and fascist leaders got.
Here Ziblatt goes deep on how this applies to Trump and today's elites. Remarkable stuff:
Here Ziblatt goes deep on how this applies to Trump and today's elites. Remarkable stuff:
Trump is promising billionaires tax cuts while openly vowing an authoritarian second term.
On the pod, historian Daniel Ziblatt likens this to previous moments where wealthy elites foolishly thought they could work with authoritarian/fascist leaders.
It gets dark:
newrepublic.com/article/1805...
On the pod, historian Daniel Ziblatt likens this to previous moments where wealthy elites foolishly thought they could work with authoritarian/fascist leaders.
It gets dark:
newrepublic.com/article/1805...
Trump Finally Reveals It: Billionaires Get Tax Cuts, We Get Autocracy
Donald Trump's comments to wealthy elites show that he's offering them a corrupt bargain that is likely to end very badly for everyone.
newrepublic.com
April 10, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Daniel Ziblatt specializes in chronicling how the conduct of conservative/financial elites at critical moments historically determined how far authoritarian and fascist leaders got.
Here Ziblatt goes deep on how this applies to Trump and today's elites. Remarkable stuff:
Here Ziblatt goes deep on how this applies to Trump and today's elites. Remarkable stuff:
Just a great discussion - @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social with Daniel Ziblatt, one of the authors of How Democracies Die. youtu.be/bVNX_PTQkRA?...
Our Democracy IS Actually Dying (w/ Daniel Ziblatt) | Bulwark on Sunday
YouTube video by The Bulwark
youtu.be
May 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Just a great discussion - @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social with Daniel Ziblatt, one of the authors of How Democracies Die. youtu.be/bVNX_PTQkRA?...
It's also exactly the key to saving democracy that Levitsky & Ziblatt suggest in 'How Democracies Die." And a nice bright spot in a pretty bleak global political landscape.
July 3, 2024 at 5:37 PM
It's also exactly the key to saving democracy that Levitsky & Ziblatt suggest in 'How Democracies Die." And a nice bright spot in a pretty bleak global political landscape.
The opportunism of center-right parties is a major reason we are where we are today. Time and again, they have failed to live up to every “Ziblatt moment,” and they continue to fail.
Jens Spahn, chairman of the CDU/CSU in German parliament on a possible US invasion of Greenland: “When you look at Greenland's location on the globe, the questions raised by the US are understandable.”
Utter madness.
Utter madness.
Das hat Jens Spahn gerade erst gestern, am Freitag, in der SZ gesagt. Diese Servilität, dieses Sich-in-den-Staub-Werfen der Union vor einem skrupellosen Potentaten ist einfach nur entsetzlich.
January 19, 2026 at 12:22 PM
The opportunism of center-right parties is a major reason we are where we are today. Time and again, they have failed to live up to every “Ziblatt moment,” and they continue to fail.
From Levitsky and Ziblatt: We are sleepwalking toward a crisis. The time for civil society to get off the sidelines is now - 12 days until Election Day, 88 until Trump could retake power.
October 24, 2024 at 5:41 PM
From Levitsky and Ziblatt: We are sleepwalking toward a crisis. The time for civil society to get off the sidelines is now - 12 days until Election Day, 88 until Trump could retake power.
Please read "How Democracies Die" by Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky to understand how we got here.
February 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Please read "How Democracies Die" by Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky to understand how we got here.
Our book Trigger Points is now out in open access. Huge thanks to Mike Savage for a terrific foreword and to Michèle Lamont, Silja Häusermann and Daniel Ziblatt for their kind words.
Link below:
@mikesavagelse.bsky.social @mlamont.bsky.social @siljahausermann.bsky.social @dziblatt.bsky.social
Link below:
@mikesavagelse.bsky.social @mlamont.bsky.social @siljahausermann.bsky.social @dziblatt.bsky.social
June 11, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Our book Trigger Points is now out in open access. Huge thanks to Mike Savage for a terrific foreword and to Michèle Lamont, Silja Häusermann and Daniel Ziblatt for their kind words.
Link below:
@mikesavagelse.bsky.social @mlamont.bsky.social @siljahausermann.bsky.social @dziblatt.bsky.social
Link below:
@mikesavagelse.bsky.social @mlamont.bsky.social @siljahausermann.bsky.social @dziblatt.bsky.social