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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Monday, March 1, 2021

The Grand Old Problem

 Vox has a nice visual run down of why the GOP is increasingly abandoning democracy as a central political tenet. I worry about a reinforcing effect referenced in the charts: as Republicans see Democrats as inherently evil and untrustworthy to govern, they will abandon democracy and then Democrats will, necessarily, see them as inherently evil and untrustworthy to govern. 

We could be entering a doom spiral.

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