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is now accepting
applications for a full-time
position of Records Specialist
in the Astoria Police
Department. Pay range is
$16.54-20.11 with excellent
benefits.
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CASH buyers are reading
your classified ad.
the Trump presidency —
from the gossipy, typo-rid-
dled “Fire and Fury,” to Bob
Woodward’s jaw-dropping
psychodrama, “Fear,” to
books by David Frum, James
Comey and others — “The
Apprentice” was, for me, the
most staggering.
It looks at everything we
knew, as of last summer,
about Russia’s ongoing
assault on our democracy,
including what the U.S.
intelligence community
witnessed, and the bizarre
Russia-coddling of Trump
campaign officials.
What’s known, at mini-
mum, is that, while Russians
were interfering in the U.S.
election on various fronts to
help elect Trump, members
of the candidate’s team had
an inordinately high number
of contacts with major Rus-
sian players — then claimed
not to recall those contacts
and continuously shifted
their stories. Meanwhile, the
beneficiaries of the attack
— the Trump administration
and Republican Congress
— do nothing substantive to
prevent the next one. Make
of that what you will.
It’s hard to finish the “The
Apprentice” and not con-
clude that Russia attacked us,
and won.
Miller describes the
Trump-Russia relationship as
a three-act drama, with the
2016 presidential campaign
as Act I, the Trump-Putin
Helsinki summit as the
conclusion of Act II, and
the third … well, it’s being
written by the hour.
“How Democracies
Die” (2018) by Steven
Levitsky and Daniel
Ziblatt — nonfiction
This is some indispens-
able, nightmarish reading.
Democracy worldwide
has seen a disturbing regres-
sion — in Turkey, Hungary,
Russia, the Philippines and
elsewhere — coupled with a
rise in nationalist movements.
Authors Steven Levitsky and
Daniel Ziblatt see develop-
ments in the U.S. as continu-
ous with that pattern and are
sounding the alarm. Once the
slide toward autocracy begins,
it is hard to stop.
The important thing to
grasp: Democracies have
unraveled in recent years not
by violent revolutions but by
elected leaders who, once in
office, change the rules, rig
the system, violate norms,
weaken guardrails and work
to delegitimize institutions —
from the courts to the press —
that push back. Authoritarians
use democracy to gain power,
then dismantle democracy to
remain in power.
What does the future
hold for democracy in the
U.S.? Look at what state
governments have done in
North Carolina, Michigan
and Wisconsin, and imagine
such blatantly undemocratic
shenanigans occurring at the
national level. That’s where
we may be headed, or worse,
if we’re not careful. CW
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