Apparently not according to this article. First he describes 3 things that have become indicators: 1) A President that claims he can pardon himself; 2) An ambassador to Germany that wants to topple the German government; 3) Senators supporting a child detention center.
"Do Americans understand how much trouble they’re now in? How grave the
threat to America’s constitutional democracy, its civil society, its
place in the world, and its ongoing survival is? [...] America
is at a crossroads. A point of no return. A democratic society cannot
really survive the three assaults above, and go on being one. They may
seem like just daily events in the ongoing sad saga of a troubled
nation — but they are not just that. They contain great significance to
history, which I feel American intellectuals are doing a poor job of
interpreting and presenting to the American people."
See the link for more.
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