BY WILLIAM E. SCHEUERMAN
ABSTRACT – This paper seeks to relate some of the events surrounding the 2020 US elections – and the Trump presidency more generally – to what are viewed as congenital problems of the US American version of constitutional democracy, which is thus described as a system of limited democracy with extensive minority rule. The US constitutional system, it is further argued, potentially offers the basis for transforming US limited democracy into a much more unambiguously authoritarian system.
KEYWORDS – President of the United States, Limited Democracy, Minority Rule, Authoritarian Populism, Presidency of Donald Trump