America’s Militant Democracy Debate Grows Louder

This analysis examines the U.S. experiment with “militant democracy,” a theory about using state power to defend democracy against its enemies. The bigger issue is the same one that keeps surfacing in modern politics - how much coercive power government should have before it starts threatening liberty itself. For conservatives, that tension matters because the cure for anti-democratic threats can become a new kind of overreach. Read more about this...