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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the politics of order

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The American Political System Is Going to Convulse

If a democracy is not producing material benefits to large swaths or majorities of the population, like the population is going to go a little crazy. If you had taken that materialist hypothesis and you had simply applied it to the United States in the year of 2016, you would not have predicted the outcome we got. I think this has to do with the presidential system that literally gives votes to land.

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