{"id":48239,"date":"2026-05-13T12:28:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=48239"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:49:02","slug":"the-imperial-presidency-fareed-zakaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/the-imperial-presidency-fareed-zakaria\/","title":{"rendered":"The Imperial Presidency | Fareed Zakaria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Imperial Presidency | Fareed Zakaria\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5YRo2XbB0jA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@One-s4g\">One<\/a>&nbsp;May 11, 2026&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1553929559i\/44659527.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/597491.Steven_Levitsky\">Steven Levitsky<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/1405020.Daniel_Ziblatt\">Daniel Ziblatt<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How does a democracy die?<\/strong><br><strong>What can we do to save our own?<\/strong><br><strong>What lessons does history teach us?<\/strong><br><br>In the 21st century democracy is threatened like never before. Drawing insightful lessons from across history \u2013 from Pinochet\u2019s murderous Chilean regime to Erdogan\u2019s quiet dismantling in Turkey \u2013 Levitsky and Ziblatt explain why democracies fail, how leaders like Trump subvert them today and what each of us can do to protect our democratic rights.<br><br>(An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/41948256-how-democracies-die\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the author<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bathtubbulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-39.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73889\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/597491.Steven_Levitsky\">Steven Levitsky<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Steven Levitsky is an American political scientist and Professor of Government at Harvard University. A comparative political scientist, his research interests focus on Latin America and include political parties and party systems, authoritarianism and democratization, and weak and informal institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One&nbsp;May 11, 2026&nbsp; How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future Steven Levitsky,&nbsp;Daniel Ziblatt How does a democracy die?What can we do to save our own?What lessons does history teach us? In the 21st century democracy is threatened like never before. Drawing insightful lessons from across history \u2013 from&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/the-imperial-presidency-fareed-zakaria\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48242,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48239\/revisions\/48242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}