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Washington Post: Ahead of US election, experts on authoritarianism warn of democracy’s potential collapse

By Washington Post.

Published Nov. 2, 2020. Updated Nov. 2 at 6:17 am

An American flag is placed on a fence outside of the U.S. Capitol building on Sept. 28, 2020 in Washington, DC.

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Fearing the end of democracy as we know it, more than 80 international and American scholars in authoritarianism and fascism wrote an open letter to the public, forecasting a “frightening regression” if safeguards are not put in place.