On so many levels, U.S. democracy is being tested and so is the party named for it. The Democrats are facing tough choices on how to respond to the second Trump presidency, around the upcoming prospect of a government shutdown as well as next year’s midterm elections.
It was a great pleasure to chat today with one of the most insightful scholars of democracy and my colleague at New America,
. Lee is the author of Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America. His previous book, The Business of America is Lobbying won the 2016 American Political Science Association's Robert A. Dahl Award, given for "scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy." He writes Undercurrent Events on Substack. I hope you enjoy the conversation.
