Democracy is under great threat right now, but it’s not over! And please don’t say it is.
I had a great time talking about that and much else in today’s “Ask me anything” session. Thanks for all the great questions.
We talked about many things — refusing self-fulfilling fatalism, refusing fear, who the pro-democracy leaders to watch are, and how the Democratic Party isn’t really a party — it’s a fundraising machine, and we need to build a real party, one that’s where people are, that invites them in, that is present in their lives. We need to revive the machine, but without the corruption.
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A programming note: More Live conversations next week!
We’re back Monday, April 28, at 12:30 p.m. Eastern, with the scholar of authoritarianism Ruth Ben-Ghiat. Then on Wednesday, April 30, at 12:30 p.m. Eastern, we’ll have the economic researcher and journalist Nathan Tankus. And on Friday, May 2, at 12:30 p.m. Eastern, we’ll be speaking with the Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. You won’t want to miss any of it!
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