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Saving Democracy from Demagogues

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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A Novel Against America by Phillip Roth

In the pre 19 72 world, where party candidates were selected by party leaders, charles linberg would have never made it through the smoke filled rooms. The system lasted pretty well and survived prtty well until two thousand 16. And ona trump, i would say, of our own day, made it through primary process and became the nominee. So why? Why did the system hold in the us?

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