One of the saddest things to read was Steven Levitsky's argument that democratic norms of mutual toleration and institutional forbearance started decaying once the franchise was meaningfully extended to non-white voters after the Civil Rights movement. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071L5C5HG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 … https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1045619560999788544 …
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Levitsky, a Harvard political science professor, studied dozens of countries engaged in various forms of democratic backsliding and competitive authoritarianism throughout the 20th century, then looked at our own system and concluded:pic.twitter.com/xSLkbv9lSy
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I think he’s assuming this is an inevitable dynamic, but California’s successful evolution from white-controlled state to a powerful multiracial democracy suggests otherwise
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