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The Rise of Demagogy in the United States

Mike Downey: We have entered a phase of our history where demagoguery poses an extraordinary danger to discourse and also to the future of the country. If I had a magic wand or a magic board with buttons on it the way I would I would feel very confident we could repair the United States right now, he says. "I don't see too many there are such a thing as left-wing demagogues" said Downey. “Civility in a democracy is as important as a constitution’s Constitution was written by Abraham Lincoln not Martin Luther King Jr., but that's another story," downey added.

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