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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 United States Military Shows Zero Interest in Exerting Real Power in the United States

i find it very difficult to imagine a cenaria where the good people of new haven are going to go to war with the good people in durham, connecticut. So there's an absence of sort of clear sectional, those kind of big divides. Thereis a monopoly on force issue right, which is that the united states military shows no clear interest in either splitting or fragmenting internally. And then i just don't think there are that many americans who want to fight each other.

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