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The Right is a Threat to American Democracy
American media has finally noticed the existential threat to American democracy. CNN has run a few special reports, for example. They cover familiar ground and serve as a good introduction. They do lay out some of the complexity in our present moment. The danger to American Democracy is the Big Lie No the election was not stolen from the former president. But it is repeated often enough that a large percentage of Americans believe it. This is particularly the case with Fox bad OANN viewers. This is not happening abroad in a Third World country. This is in the here and now in the United States.
I started writing about this early in the 2000s at a place called Democratic Underground. They believed I was exaggerating. Over the Trump presidency, they sounded like me. We Cassandra’s rarely got any credit though. I also wrote about the danger of an American Civil War at that same site, and have continued to the present.
None of this is academic anymore. We are heading towards a very dark era of American history. The election of Joe Biden may have stalled this process. But until we become more active and take these threats seriously this is not over. We need a much healthier civil society with people getting involved at all levels of government. Voting is not enough. However, for the right election integrity is a politically laden term. It is central…