Democracy in crisis, part 1: Ross Douthat isn't too worried
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
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Electoral Subversion in the United States
I think this gets to the sort of fundamental disagreement about democracy here. We're creating these conditions, which you describe as sort of free conditions, in 20 20 but we'e creating the conditions for a contested election in 20 24 and 20 28. The wave of efforts to undermine the non partisan structures that had traditionally governed our election administration system have happened since 20 20. And if there's a real crisis there, you can imagine all sorts of bad outcomes, up to and included an actual stolen election. It seems tome that basically the united states has, with donald trump and what he tried to do in 20 20 this sort of weird, like one neat trick problem, right? Where
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