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

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Are We in an Autocracy?

"I would never use it because it's a terrible word that doesn't actually describe what people are using it to describe," he says. "Liberal control over media, education and related institutions in the united states has grown more powerful over the last 20 years." The scale of progressive power in the united States is simply too vast to make this kind of scenario possible according to him.

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