The US’s intolerant mood reminds me of Chile before the coup struck | Ariel Dorfman

When a tide of illiberalism is growing, democracy can be subverted if people look away

It can’t happen here. That’s an avowal I have been hearing from Americans ever since my family and I, fleeing a dictatorship in our native Chile, finally came to settle in the United States in 1980.

What happened to you in Chile can’t happen here. Democracy in the US is too stable, the institutions too deeply rooted, the people too much in love with liberty.

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