I think we're increasingly, I'm increasingly worried about a civil war in the United States. How is a nation defined? Who gets to define it? Who are we? And I don't know how nations go forward without that narrative. But I can imagine political violence breaking out in the first week of November.
Journalist and author Anne Applebaum talks about her book, Twilight of Democracy, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Applebaum discusses the rise of populist and nationalist movements in Eastern Europe as well as in the West, and the appeal of these movements even when they begin to erode or destroy democracy.