The doom loop and the anti-democratic whirlpool

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

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…