Jacobin Show: The Erosion of American Democracy w/ Chris Maisano
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Is There a Crisis in Presidential Politics?
i think we're lucky in a sense that it doesn't produce more situations like, say, the year two thousand than it does. I don't know how long this can all kind of continue without resulting in some sort of serious, a crisis. What happened on january sixth was a pretty shocking event. It reveals the extent to which the right wing in this country has become just very contemptuous of even the minimal and limited forms of democracy we have in this country. And i also think it's heightened, high lighted the importance of this kind of democratic agenda and these sorts of basic democratic questions.
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