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Sara Wallace Goodman on Citizen Responses to Democratic Threats

Democracy Paradox

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Are You Saying That in Hard Times, That People Are Making Those Decisions to Prefer That Extreme Candidate?

In hard times, people are then making those decisions to prefer those idio logically preferable candidates, but giving up on their corp democratic beliefs. It's not just the choices that people make in terms of the ballot box, but how they see their own role in that democracy. So that, for me, it's kind of really important that, yes, people see their obligation as protecting their side, which can be in conflict with democratic preservation.

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