 And that's because many people feel the Tories have just run the country into the ground. More than four in five people in a recent poll think public services there are in really bad shape. Now, I was talking to a guy named Steve Levitsky. He's a co-author of that famous book, How Democracies Die. And he says all of this is part of a much broader pattern in the West in recent years. Here's how he put it.