'We’re in a dangerous place': Alex Wagner on America’s slide toward authoritarianism

The New York Times editorial board is out with an expansive interactive piece this morning asking this question. Are we losing our democracy. In it, the editorial board lays out 12 benchmarks of what it calls democratic erosion from the stifling of disscent to the persecution of political opponents.The editorial board argues that the United States has regressed on all 12. The piece concludes this way. The United States is not an autocracy today.It still has a mostly free press and independent judiciary and ...