Anocracy

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/24/2022
  

  The Threat of the US Becoming an "Anocracy" Again? Civil War

  by Barbara F. Walter

  Anocracies combine the superficial trappings of democracy, like elections, with the suppression of civil liberties and the press and the hardening of factions in place of a common civic culture. By some measures, the US is now an anocracy, like Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.