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Tag: political legitimacy

Catastrophic Populism

In the United States, the early twenty-first-century autocratic turn emerges from a system that was already structurally fragile. Long before any individual leader came to dominate the political field, democratic legitimacy had thinned, institutional trust had decayed, and communicative coherence had been weakened by inequality, media saturation, and sustained disinvestment in public understanding. Into this […]

Tags authoritarian drift, catastrophic populism, complexity overload, democratic backsliding, democratic decay, elite capture, entropy in governance, institutional fatigue, media saturation, political instability, political legitimacy, populism dynamics, structural fragility, systems collapse, weimar america

Philosophy

Strange Days

Post author By G
Post date Jan 18, 2026
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What strikes me most about the current president of the United States is a strange inversion that would be almost comic if it were not so consequential. He shows little regard for the role he occupies, scant respect for the law, and no evident commitment to the country beyond what it can deliver to him […]