How Democracies Become Dictatorships

History is literally unfolding before our eyes and under our noses---as it has been for the past eight years. Andrew Sullivan in The Atlantic gives his unsettling take.

"But this new move to create a de facto dictator for the financial markets, to invest a Treasury secretary with unprecedented powers to buy and sell at close to a trillion dollar level - with no oversight or accountability: this is a new collapse in democratic life and constitutional norms."