What are we experiencing! Before our eyes, a single person is dismantling liberal democracy in their country at an incredible speed and establishing a new undemocratic political regime. But this country is not just any — it is the United States, the strongest democracy on the planet. And this concerns us all.

We are already in a new historical era, a twilight zone between democracy and authoritarianism. This book, combining in an original way three fundamental political concepts — charismatic leadership, populism, and liberal democracy — explains how and why we have arrived here.

It focuses on the character of the new American power and raises the critical question: what path will democracies take from now on?