There are just three ingredients in the recipe that could end constitutional democracy as we know it, says scholar Peter L. Biro — fear, habituation and what he calls ‘stupidification.’ He argues that we, as law-abiding average citizens, have the power to save our democracy and defend against backsliding forces. Biro recently delivered a keynote address at the ominously titled conference, Liberal Democracy in the Rearview Mirror? at Massey College in Toronto.