United States' democracy is failing while Trump's falsehoods seem like the truth: Letter

GARY PARKER

"The decay of truth and democratic dissolution proceed hand in hand, starting with the insurgent's assertion that the establishment media delivers false or biased information while he (alone) speaks the truth and risks everything to get the 'real facts' out." Ruth Ben-Ghiat in her book "Strongmen, Mussolini to the Present."

"Once they bond with him they stop caring about (his) falsehoods." That may be where we are with Trump. If so, we could become a tragic repeat of the rise of the authoritarian governments of 1930s Europe.

GARY PARKER

Lexington

This article originally appeared on The Dispatch: United States' democracy is decaying while Trump's lies are standing