Until I watched this video, I hadn't heard of anacyclosis theory, which greatly informed the thinking of some of the founders of the USA's Constitution. The theory proposes that democracies tend to dissolve when a populist demagogue takes over, and the original constitution was designed to try to prevent that.
Until I watched this video, I hadn't heard of anacyclosis theory, which greatly informed the thinking of some of the founders of the USA's Constitution. The theory proposes that democracies tend to dissolve when a populist demagogue takes over, and the original constitution was designed to try to prevent that.