Devoured This Used to Be Us by for its unflinching institutional autopsy? The People vs. Democracy by scales that diagnosis worldwide.
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- Global case studies > single-nation handwringing
- Populism decoded w/ zero partisan spin
- Hard data meets institutional decay porn
- No happy endings, just clear-eyed diagnosis
If you craved the unflinching autopsy of American exceptionalism in 'This Used to Be Us,' Yascha Mounk dissects the same institutional rot with surgical precision—but across continents. He refuses easy villains or salvation narratives, instead mapping how democracies everywhere succumb to populism's seductions and elite failure. This is the global sequel your intellect demanded: rigorous, unsettling, and utterly devoid of partisan comfort food.
Mounk delivers the evidence-based catharsis you need—data on backsliding, cultural fragmentation, and the erosion of civic virtue—without descending into apocalypse theater or false hope.
This is the unvarnished diagnosis for those who've stopped believing in quick fixes.
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"I could barely put this book down...a well-researched explanation of why government is the way it is today." — Judy Cummings, Goodreads
"the best book that I have read...this analytic framework is much more helpful in describing what is happening..." — Soren Dayton, Goodreads
"an outstanding analysis...this book will change my perspective going forward" — Jason Furman, Goodreads
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