Explainer: Democratic Backsliding | Rory Truex, Princeton University

In this session of The Civic Forum, Rory Truex provides a short lecture on how democracies erode, a process political scientists call "democratic backsliding."  The session includes a discussion of the global state of democracy and the conditions that lead democracy to die. He provides brief case studies of Hungary and El Salvador. He then proceeds to address whether Trump and his faction of the GOP should be considered an authoritarian political party at this point. At the end he introduces The Civic Forum, a new speaker series focused on the core issues facing democracy.