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Nodefender review7/27/2023 7 Klarman’s solution to preserve democracy is straightforward. President Trump governs according to an “authoritarian playbook,” 1 while elected Republicans - and Republicans alone - continue their decades-long “assault on democracy.” 2 Meanwhile, the Justices on the Supreme Court “defend the interests of the Republican Party,” not because of any principled legal reasoning, but because of their “personal values” and “political calculations.” 3 Republican voters appear in the story only as stereotypes - as a “disappearing white majority,” 4 a “disappearing Christian majority,” 5 and “Neo–Ayn Randians.” 6 These voters, Klarman seems to think, are trapped in a “right-wing media ecosystem,” uncritically accepting talking points from Fox News pundits. ![]() The thesis of Professor Michael Klarman’s Foreword is that Republicans have declared war on democracy.
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