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Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the politics of order

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Twilight of the Elites

There is a way though in which this part of the book has a fascinating tension with Twilight of the elites. I'm curious how you think about that tension. Bloodlust from the crowd is a common trait. Every country on earth has experienced some form of it. In democracy, the politics of crime present the possibility of vigilantism by other means. We insulate criminal procedure from direct democracy precisely because of the corrupting force of the will of the people.

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