The Kudeta - What's Happening in Other Places?

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So anne: The unravelling of our democracy is of a piece with what's happening wheres. How do you see the current state of the misinformation in our society that is allowing fully half of americans to not follow the plot here? So, yes, i think the internationalism, the perspective, is important in one sense, because if you look around the world and you look at the way in which democracies fall... In fact, most democracies fail, and i mean venezuela, i mean russia, i mean hungary. It's happening in other places now as well,. Because elected officials who are unscrupulous take advantage of the current political system. They ignore the

Sam Harris speaks with Anne Applebaum, David Frum, Barton Gellman, and George Packer about the ongoing threat to American democracy posed by Republican misinformation and disinformation regarding the 2020 Presidential Election and the attack on the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

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