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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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Is There a Trade-Off Between Populism and Elite Consensus?

Menson: It's not like there's a direct trade off between populis nationalist rabble rousing and terrible elite consensus policies. The question is, how likely is that kind of esculatory spiral? And i think that we created these extremely weird conditions with coved and lockdowns and donald trump being president,. That sort of temporarily suspended a lot of the, you know, normal things that americans do - which led to mass protest becoming more likely than it had been in decades.

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