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A second Trump presidency will damage American democracy. The reason has less to do with Trump and his ambitions than with how power dynamics have shifted within the Republican Party.
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In these battles over protecting the safety and rights of transgender kids, we’re confronted with the politics of questions that shouldn’t be political.
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This is your TPM evening briefing.
President Biden and his team have reportedly been planning to have the President deliver a speech on protecting democracy ahead of the midterms for some time. But the recent uptick in threats and political violence as we get closer to the election — including the very high profile attack on the husband of the woman second in the line of secession — expedited the urgency of the message.
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Why are so many people now embracing demagogues? Barbara Walter, political scientist and author of “How Civil Wars Start,” says that the vital signs of healthy democracy are in decline around the world.
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To some Canadians, the U.S. provided a cautionary tale about weak central institutions and rule by the undisciplined masses.