The threats from disinformation, authoritarianism, and populist movements are all around us, seemingly all the time!

[Rube Reaper]

The Republicans are not devoted to liberal democracy. They’re actually willing to play dice with democracy. Republicans are saying, Look, almost half the country will follow us no matter what we do. Many of them only consume media that affirms their biases anyway. So let’s just seize and exercise power by any means necessary. The overturning of Roe v. Wade is an obvious recent example.

Free speech is essential for democracy. Could it also be democracy’s downfall?

Margaret Sullivan and I talk about my new book, The Paradox of Democracy.

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