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Democracy in crisis, part 1: Ross Douthat isn't too worried

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Mainstream Republican Party Wants a Return to Civil Rights, and That's Where the Violence Comes From

The greatest violent threats in the united states right now emerge from white nationalist groups and par military organizations that oppose the current political order wholesale. They take these mainstream controversies as symbols that politics are moving in a more extreme direction. And that can motivate them to act more violently, which could spark larger scale violence than we've seen right now.

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