Twilight of Democracy

I see that a lot of people had an issue with the name dropping and evident establishment of the author's “polite conservative” street cred, I think she spent such painstaking time on that stuff because she is trying to reach a certain type of people. People on the left generally do not need to be warned about authoritarianism these days, we see it even if we suck at fighting it, both the one within (let us be honest with ourselves the left can be extremely carceral at times and thus we cannot ignore that these tendencies are within us too) and the one on the outside and she is aware of that. By and large this book does not offer solutions it tries to bring to people's attention the urgency in which we find ourselves and calls us to not fall into doomerism/apathy. Yes, it's from a vehemently center-right-liberal position which occasionally resorts to false adequations to offer a lukewarm takes that can range from the mildly-infuriating to the eyeroll inducing but I think it is done in full awareness of who it is attempting to speak to.
It's a decent book, at times it feels like having a chat with someone while you're both stuck waiting for something, you don't necessarily agree with them but they're not offensive or unpleasant enough that you would take umbrage to what they're saying and occasionally it gets a little deeper. It's a way of speaking/thinking that even the author recognizes as disappearing from public discourse and it's worth the read be it just to remember that there are times where it is still an option.