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CNN’s John Avlon writes that new House Speaker Mike Johnson’s words that “we don’t live in a democracy” show there’s a trend among right-wing leaders to dismiss a majoritarian democracy.
Once democratic trust in your fellow citizens is lost, it isn’t easily regained. Perhaps I am being too cynical. Perhaps I, too, have been infected by Trump’s apocalyptic vision of America.
This election isn’t an indictment of Kamala Harris; it’s an indictment of our nation.” ... Conservatives care deeply about democracy and America. But we − and an increasing number of ...
Plato famously opposed democracy, arguing for a 'government of the best qualified'; James Madison extensively studied the historic attempts at and arguments on democracy in his preparation for the Constitutional Convention; and Winston Churchill remarked that "No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that ...
Americans should welcome America’s changing demographic. Mutual acceptance of our founding principles and ideals and mutual assimilation of races, nationalities, ethnicities and cultures are the ...
Dahl supposes that there are certain conditions that make it easier to maintain a democracy in a given country. He writes that they seem to include "the effective control by elected leaders over the military and police, a political culture supportive of democratic beliefs, and a relatively well-functioning economic order, among others."
The primary focus of Democracy in America is an analysis of why republican representative democracy has succeeded in the United States while failing in so many other places. Tocqueville seeks to apply the functional aspects of democracy in the United States to what he sees as the failings of democracy in his native France.
It doesn’t seem controversial to say it feels as though today citizens of the United States are at a pivotal point in history.