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Alex Nowrasteh: Immigration, Its Fans, and Its Haters

From the New World

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Is There a Risk of Extremism?

i don't think there's a risk of something like a civil war, becaus americans are too old, too rich, too fat to fight right im. But i do think t there's ha risk of a violent transfer power that is larger than it used to be. And so as a result, you have all this power concentrated in one position, in one person. All the elections are mainly focused on the election for president. That's what counts more than any other pos that's one person. The spoils of capturing that one position are enormous. So  the incentives of presidential systems are not very good. It's like south karea, the united states, france

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