And an important piece of information we may need to assess why Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong blocked an editorial endorsing Kamala Harris: as Sewell Chan, previously an editor at Los Angeles Times, reminds us:

"Elon Musk … is friendly with Soon-Shiong — they are both South African-born billionaire entrepreneurs."

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https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/los-angeles-times-editorials-editor-resigns-after-owner-blocks-presidential-endorsement.php

Endorsing Kamala Harris, The Guardian states that Harris Harris represents a hopeful future, while Trump will drag Americans back into a reactionary past.

Trump’s authoritarianism may be the end of US democracy, The Guardian concludes.

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2024/oct/23/the-guardian-view-on-the-us-presidential-election-2024-a-democratic-government-is-the-one-we-need

"We have been studying democratic crisis and authoritarianism for 30 years. Between the two of us, we have written five books on those subjects. We can think of few major national candidates for office in any democracy since World War II who have been this openly authoritarian….

The U.S. establishment is sleepwalking toward a crisis."

~ Steven Levitskiy and Daniel Ziblatt

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/opinion/democracy-defense-us-authoritarian.html