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Mike talks with Osita Nwanevu, a contributing editor at The New Republic, columnist at The Guardian, and the Democratic Institutions fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. He’s also the author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding, which they discuss on this episode
Topics Mike & Osita cover include:
- why democracy is the best political system
- the ‘folk theory’ of democracy
- if Americans actually care about democracy
- democracy and demagogues
- grounding principles for modern democracy
- the Framers’ views of democracy
- reforms to make the US system more democratic
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