Democracy’s Unpluckable Feathers and Presidential Term Limits
4 min readJul 8, 2020
In her book Fascism: A Warning, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright recounts that:
“Mussolini observed that in seeking to accumulate power it is wise to do so in the manner of one plucking a chicken — feather by feather — so each squawk is heard apart from every other and the whole process is kept as muted as possible.”