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The doom loop and the anti-democratic whirlpool

The doom loop and the anti-democratic whirlpool

A conversation with Lee Drutman about the authoritarian trajectory of American democracy — and the ways out

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G. Elliott Morris
Mar 05, 2021
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What do you do when your governing institutions start incentivizing anti-democratic behavior?

America faces some version of this question at the local, state, and national level — the Republican Party is currently waging a full-scale assault on our democracy. The party’s leaders have grown dramatically more willing in recent years to take illiberal actio…

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