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    Robin Abcarian: Trump's autocratic ploys and racist outbursts endanger American democracy

    by Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times Jul 16, 2019 4 minutes

    Since President Trump famously hates to read, it's unlikely that he has studied historical texts on how leaders with autocratic tendencies - even duly elected ones - have turned their countries into dictatorships.

    And yet, it's absolutely uncanny how he is following those leaders, taking our country into uncharted, undemocratic waters.

    In Monterey last week, a few days before the president launched his epic racist and xenophobic attack on four newly elected Democratic congresswomen, a wave of nervous laughter engulfed a hotel banquet room when democracy expert Larry Jay Diamond, a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, offered what he called "the autocrats' 12-step program."

    The steps, laid

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