Stanley Sloan: Democracy threatened by illiberalism trend

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Stanley R. Sloan, of Richmond, who is a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States, has taught in the winter term at Middlebury College for 14 years, following a career of government service at the Congressional Research Service, the CIA and as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force. His latest book, the basis for several recent presentations in Vermont and in Europe, is “Transatlantic traumas, Has illiberalism b