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26. Taking Stock: The State of American Democracy Heading into Summer

Is This Democracy

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The Rise of Political Violence in Republican Politics

This is consistent with this other sort of broader phenomenon happening in Republican politics, which is this increasing embrace of vigilantism. We're seeing vigilante harassment of people who are either getting abortions or assisting someone who's getting an abortion. And you basically get $10,000 from her if you are from the guy that drove her to the clinic. If as long as she can't 100% prove that that was not what she was doing. So there's vigilante justice happening, there is vigilante book burning, and then there's vigilante violence, which we will also talk about.

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