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20. Walter Huss and the History of Republican Radicalization, From the 1950s to Today – with Seth Cotlar

Is This Democracy

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The American Story of Walter Huss

The way the U.S. political system is set up opens a lot of avenues for that kind of insurgency, right? The combination of an incredible amount of elections and sort of political positions at all levels plus weak parties are not necessarily capable of just holding the line against these more radical figures. They never need anywhere close to like what you would call a majority of whatever. Just need a few hyper, you know, organized and riled up people, riled up enough to go there and be there. And then you can again, like outwork,. from a German perspective, it's very different than the German system where again, like we don't school boards, there's no election

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