Trumped Up: How Criminalization of Political Differences Endangers Democracy Audiobook (Free)

Inside our current age of hyper-partisan politics, everybody takes sides. This is especially true with regard towards the Trump presidency, which didn’t cause this deep division but provides attracted it to the top, rendering it the prominent paradigm of political debate. Both sides scream lock ’em up, criminalizing politics difference instead of making substantive criticisms of opposing sights. This deeply undemocratic fallacy-that political sins must be investigated and prosecuted as criminal-is an exceedingly dangerous trend. The underlying issue, Alan Dershowitz argues, is normally that we have weakened our national dedication to civil liberties. The lively center is usually weakening, with traditional liberalism and conservatism getting further apart-not just in approach but also in their respect for Constitutional norms. And unless we as a nation begin to focus once again on what unites us instead of on what divides us, America may not survive another decade.