Library series: Can democracy survive? 

Pundits, historians and Democratic leaders have been sounding warnings about Trump’s threat to American democracy with his turn toward authoritarianism. His regime’s unleashing of masked ICE agents to vastly increase deportations of immigrants has all the earmarks of such a turn. At the same time, citizen reaction to it has been powerful and broad, as the “No Kings” protests across the country demonstrated.

The United States is not unique in this regard. Democracies are under threat worldwide.

FYI: The Baltimore County Public Library has organized a series of discussions on democracy’s vulnerabilities and resiliencies, titled, “How Do Democracies Survive?” Speakers include Johns Hopkins University political science faculty: Consuelo Amat, Matthew Kocher, Adria Lawrence, Adam Sheingate and Lester Spence.

The series continues this week, Wednesday, June 18 at the Pikesville branch, and three more sessions, with variations on the main theme, are scheduled over the summer.