Salt Lake Tribune · Feb 1, 2018
Jennifer Rubin: Staging a comeback for democracy
Trump is a charlatan and “has no real intention of devolving power back to the people.”
President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Greenbrier Vally Airport in Lewisburg, W.Va., Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018, to travel to Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)Yascha Mounk, an unassuming academic born in Germany and now a fellow in New America’s Political Reform program and a lecturer on government at Harvard University, is the quintessential man for the moment. A specialist in liberal democracies and the rise of authoritarian states around the world, he has become the go-to expert to analyze and explain President Donald Trump.