Authoritarianism in America
Jonathan Weiler, a professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, started pondering authoritarianism in American politics after the 2000 election and recount. “It got me to thinking more broadly about what differentiated the left from the right in America,” Weiler said, and he and his co-author eventually realized, as they explore in Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics, that the concept of authoritarianism explains much about American politics. Below he tells Zócalo what authoritarianism is, how American politics has come to be determined by it in the last …
