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Democracy in crisis, part 1: Ross Douthat isn't too worried

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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What Happened at Charlottesville?

I think we're creating the conditions, again, for a contested election in 20 24 and 20 28. The wave of efforts to undermine the non partisan structures that had traditionally governed our election administration system have happened since 20 20. And if there's a real crisis there, you can imagine all sorts of bad outcomes, up to and included an actual stolen election. It seems tome that basically the united states has, with donald trump and what he tried to do in 20 20 this sort of weird, like one neat trick problem,. Where it's like, oh, you want to overturn an election. Well, guess what? If it comes down to one state, and we can just find

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