Saturday, October 14, 2017

"Our Problems Are Deep and Broad and Stretch Back Decades"

"But for all the reasons discussed above, people have gradually disengaged from the status quo. Something has cracked. Citizens have lost faith in the system. The social compact is broken. So now we're left to stew in our racial and cultural resentments, which paved the way for a demagogue like Trump."

Sean Illing at Vox reports from a conference of political scientists discussing the future of American democracy.

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