Protect Democracy’s Ian Bassin: Freedom Is Still Up to Us

Is the chaos of today’s American politics accidental? Not at all, according to Protect Democracy Executive Director Ian Bassin . This week, he tells host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush about the seven-point playbook of modern authoritarians – and how to counter it. Ian also describes the three “d” strategy to attack democracy: Deceive, Disrupt, and Deny. He also shares a Protect Democracy resource for understanding and defeating this strategy, the Executive Override Report, available at protectdemocracy.org/DDD

August 11th is National Poll Worker Recruitment Day,  and the website Powerthepolls.org contains a wealth of information about getting involved, hands-on, in our electoral system – and our democracy.

More about Ian Bassin

You may recognize Ian’s name from a powerful Ted Talk titled, How to spot authoritarianism — and choose democracy . He’s a former White House counsel and 2023 MacArthur Fellow, and Founder and Executive Director of Protect Democracy , which works to defeat authoritarian tactics and build a stronger, fairer democracy.

Protect Democracy partnered with Interfaith Alliance to produce a moving series of advertisements promoting the message “Choose…