Reverse-engineering autocracy: Thinking like authoritarians can help defeat them

February 23, 2025 US onAir Curator

By Aaron Baird and Ben Raderstorf – February 21, 2025

1. Understand how authoritarianism wins: by picking off competing power centers

2. How authoritarianism loses: the other power centers refuse to be cowed

3. How democracy wins: by building power outside the executive

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