A review by ctepen
Tyranny of the Minority by Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky

informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

Helpful to understand how we’ve gotten to this point with such a small minority ruling over over the majority in the Congress, the Presidency, & the Supreme Court. It’s interesting to hear how other countries have dealt with rule of the the minority, while our misled belief that we be very reluctant to update our Constitution because it was created by the “infallible” founding fathers has caused us to be surpassed by other nations, to the point that we are now at severe risk of losing our democracy. It was interesting to hear that our Constitution is one of the hardest to amend in all modern democracies. The U.S. now receives low scores for our democratic health on the world stage, and we must act now before it’s too late. At the end of the book, the authors provide reasonable solutions to strengthen our democracy, including shoring up voting rights and adding term limits to the Supreme Court.