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Sep 22, 2021

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Here’s How the System Could Fail

What situations might put our stressed democracy over the edge?

The storming of the Capitol on January 6 courtesy Wikimedia Commons

On January 6, we came close to a real constitutional crisis. Luckily for the country, Donald Trump and his supporters were too incompetent to follow through on their stated aims of subverting the 2020 election.

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