Falling Leaves Falling Leaves How do we know when democracy is gone? In recent years, democracies have been lost in similar fashion: not all at once, but in a slow falling away. This erosion is happening now in the United States. The special section in this issue of Dissent is devoted to the subject of authoritarianism and resistance. Turning back to the United States, K. Sabeel Rahman offers a sweeping vision of the democratic reconstruction we will need after Trump.