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5. What Does “Democracy” Even Mean, And Why Conservatives Don’t Want to Be Conservatives Anymore (Oh, and the meeting of white supremacists at Mar-a-Lago)

Is This Democracy

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Democracy - Part 1 of 3

This week, we're going to focus on kind of terms that Thomas writes about a lot in terms of the democracy conflict. We'll have another episode where we talk about polarization and partisanship as well. The first question we should ask whenever someone says democracy is what kind of democracy, how much and for whom? And since 1965, the conflict over whether or not America should again extend that vision of egalitarian democracy has continued to define the political conflict.

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