Friday, April 24, 2020

Will America Remain a Democracy in 2020? - The American Interest

Here's the money shot:
Perhaps unexpectedly, it is the democratic component of liberal democracy that is now most seriously at risk, raising the prospect, as the perspicacious commentator Hussein Ibish has recently warned, that the United States could become the first liberal non-democracy in modern times.
The core issue before us is whether, in the face of a deadly pandemic that is likely to persist for some time and resurge in the fall, America can preserve a core element of democracy—universal suffrage.
Will America Remain a Democracy in 2020? - The American Interest

In the wake of the coronavirus, it’s an open question.

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