Vermont Conversation: ‘Gradually, then suddenly.’ Bestselling author Richard North Patterson on how American democracy was undermined.

“If you look at authoritarians throughout time, they've always found an enemy. And for Trump, they were racial minorities,” said Patterson, who predicts that “2026 and 2028 are really democracy's last good shot at getting itself turned around.” Read the story on VTDigger here: Vermont Conversation: ‘Gradually, then suddenly.’ Bestselling author Richard North Patterson on how American democracy was undermined..