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As the parties have grown racially, religiously, and socially distant from one another, a new kind of social discord has been growing. The increasing political divide has allowed political, public, electoral, and national norms to be broken with little to no consequence. Institutions that empower partisan minorities can become instruments of minority rule. And they are especially dangerous when they are in the hands of extremist or antidemocratic partisan minorities. Its political system spreads power out very broadly, in ways that give many individual players the power to stop things.
Persons: Lilliana Mason, Johns Hopkins, Trump, , Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt, “ Vetocracy, ” Francis Fukuyama, Stanford’s, Fukuyama, ” Fukuyama Organizations: American, Harvard, Constitution, Global, Politics Today, Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, House Republicans Locations: America, U.S
Opinion | The Politics of Delusion Have Taken Hold
  + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Thomas B. Edsall | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +4 min
He concluded:As the old sociological adage goes, situations believed to be real can become real in their consequences. In that sense people are, in fact, operating under a delusion that everyday opposing partisans are willing to undermine democracy. Partisans, Braley continued, “overestimate how much members of the other party dislike and dehumanize them. When Democrats see this election denial, they naturally come to think that Republicans are trying to undermine democracy by not accepting election results. The first “is the need for politicians to mobilize citizens with busy lives and not much of an incentive to participate in politics.
Persons: Republicans don’t, , Lilliana Mason, Johns Hopkins, , Mason, Alia Braley, , Braley, Donald Trump’s, Gabriel Lenz —, Braley’s, , Lenz Organizations: Republicans, , University of California, Democratic Locations: Berkeley
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