Authoritarian takeovers rarely happen overnight these days.
Today’s authoritarian playbook is a process that happens piecemeal and is hard to distinguish from normal political jockeying.
Project Democracy’s report, The Authoritarian Playbook: How reporters can contextualize and cover authoritarian threats as distinct from politics-as-usual outlines the seven fundamental tactics used by aspiring authoritarians, describes examples from in and outside the United States, and offers a framework journalists can use to differentiate between politics-as-usual and something more dangerous to democracy.
