Trump's America Will End. History Shows What Comes Next.

Part 5 of After the Fall: four models of post-authoritarian accountability and what they mean for the United States.

Last week, I stood in a small military museum in Lisbon, in the barracks where Portugal’s dictatorship ended. April 25, 1974. There’s a minute-by-minute timeline on the wall that traces the entire day, from the first troop movements before dawn to the moment Marcelo Caetano, the country’s last dictator, accepted that it was over.

What I remember most is …