It’s no surprise that when President Trump shot back at Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) last week, he failed to engage the substance of McCain’s argument. And people have to be careful because at some point I fight back,” Trump said in his usual playground style. “It appears to me the whole region is in a steep democratic recession, partly because of the loud silence from their western allies. “It is all gone.”You can debate the causes of this democratic decay, which obviously did not begin with Trump. Unless they do, the democratic recession will be increasingly likely to shift from cyclical phenomenon to the onset of something much scarier.

Source: Washington Post October 23, 2017 00:00 UTC