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Back in 2015, before President Donald Trump, before January 6, before all the craziness of the last decade, Matt Yglesias made a blunt prediction: American democracy is doomed.

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Guest host Zack Beauchamp talks with Matt about what that argument got right, what it missed, and why the real problem might not be any one politician but the structure of the system itself. They get into presidential power, partisan loyalty, why Congress keeps folding, and how the two-party system might be quietly making everything worse. They also discuss what it would actually take to fix it — or whether things have to completely break first.

Host: Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp)
Guest: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias)

00:00 Intro
5:32 Executive authority in the US
7:05 Systemic issues in American democracy
9:44 Opposition strategies
18:29 Coalition building when democracy is on the line
21:36 Brazil’s democratic system
29:58 January 6 and the end of the first Trump presidency

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