Is Donald Trump a Threat to Democracy?

“It is less clear, however, how democracy would fare in a crisis,” The New York Times writes.

The crisis, the Times points to is a war, a major terrorist attack or large-scale riots or protests, all of which, it says, are entirely possible.

It fears for American democracy when the country has a president with authoritarian tendencies and the country has institutions that have come unmoored. “That poses a serious threat to American democracy,” it says.

Each of the crises, The Times points to can be, have been and are being caused by climate change and to further loosen the hold that not only America has on democracy, but the rest of the world, the U.S. president-elect, Donald Trump appears to be of similar ilk to Australia’s former Prime Minster, Tony Abbott, who publically declared climate change to be “crap”.

America is second only to China in terms of carbon dioxide emissions and if Donald Trump has his way, the U.S. will soon reclaim that crown, but at a cost that will be seen in the continuing watering down of democracy.

Read The New York Times Sunday Review piece - “Is Donald Trump a Threat to Democracy?”