Is American Democracy Really Under Threat?
The country’s turbulent politics, in perspective
The White House’s increasing inaccessibility to the press; the violence against lawmakers and journalists; the apparent ease with which Russia preyed on Americans’ deep political divisions and distrust of government; and the president’s efforts to delegitimize the media, his opponents, unfavorable court rulings, and independent investigations into his campaign’s ties with Moscow, have all contributed to a sense that American democracy is battered and besieged.
“America is no more immune from collapse than were some of history’s most stable and impressive consensual governments,” Victor Davis Hanson last week in . “Fifth-century Athens, Republican Rome,
