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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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The End of Multi-Racial Democracy in the South

In the 19 sixties and seventies, you had these mass waves of bombing that a lot of people have memory holds. And terrorism then was actually less likely to be deadly on a per attack basis than terrorism is to day. So if you could see an up takin activity, right? And we get a scenario that's a lot more like italy's years of lads were ghtwing and left wing groups launch competing attacks. You could have one that seriously stabilizes american politics without descending into full on collapse of political authority. i think that's something tha's worth worrying about.

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