The first-ever criminal trial of a former president was a parade of tawdry testimony about Donald Trump. He used it to launch an attack on the justice system.
The foundational democratic principle that no one is above the law withstood the first criminal trial of a former American president. But the strain is starting to show.
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, published by Crown. There is widespread fear that our democracy faces an existential threat. Some believe the threat is named Donald Trump. Others believe it is Joe Biden. But few see the U.S. Constitution as the biggest danger of all. That is the argument of a brilliant, disturbing and ultimately hopeful new book by Harvard University professors of government Steven Levitsky and