Irish polemicist and political activist, George Bernard Shaw, once remarked: "We learn from history that we learn nothing from history". The loud echo of these words permeates through Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt's How Democracies Die, where they draw lessons from history to shine a light on how regimes break down and how democracies die. Grounding their analysis on the collapse of regimes across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Levitsky and Ziblatt provide an insightful perspective on the ideological and broader socio-political meaning of the global rise of right-wing politics, with a specific focus on the implications of a Donald Trump presidency in the United States (US). Describing Trump as an authoritarian leader with an endless capacity for dissembling and disregarding the sacrosanct American constitution, Levitsky and Ziblatt argue that democracies do not always die with a coup d