Well written and elaborated. As the authors are American the book also focuses on America. It gave interesting insights in the history of the American democracy and how it has changed over the past years. Besides this I would have liked a more detailed look on the current situations in Europe - there are some examples but no picture on how much we are currently facing the danger of right extremism within whole Europe. What I liked were the comparsions of how the countries are structured and how something worked for one country but not for another and for which reasons. What gave me hope were the examples and explanations on how countries stood up to fight the right parties. I hope we continue to do this.