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'A Clear and Present Danger': What Jan. 6 Means For the Future of U.S. Democracy

The new details revealed by the committee augur ominously for 2024.

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Jun 19, 2022
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The political theorist Hannah Arendt understood how the destruction of democracy depended on alliances between elites and people who had fallen in social status, whom she called the mob. "The tempora…

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