{"id":22265,"date":"2023-10-15T09:47:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T13:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=22265"},"modified":"2023-10-15T10:14:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T14:14:08","slug":"why-the-us-democracy-is-particularly-vulnerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/why-the-us-democracy-is-particularly-vulnerable\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the US democracy is so vulnerable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s David Pakman interviewing Steven Levistky, co-author of <strong>Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point<\/strong>. He makes some points that I haven&#8217;t heard anyone make before. He points out that old democracies and rich democracies have always lasted. He talks about why the US democracy is more vulnerable than others:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the radicalization of the Republican Party &#8212; it&#8217;s very unusual for parties that are 150 years old to stop believing in elections<\/li>\n<li>institutions that allow the minority to thwart the will of the majority<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He talks about why the Republican Party has become anti-democratic, and how populism is easier today because of social media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4Re2wPrQsXI\">Why MAGA abandoned democracy | Steven Levistky interview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s David Pakman interviewing Steven Levistky, co-author of Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point. He makes some points that I haven&#8217;t heard anyone make before. He points out that old democracies and rich democracies have always lasted. He talks about why the US democracy is more vulnerable than others: the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-22265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22265"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22274,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22265\/revisions\/22274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}