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Looking back (in 5 years, 10 years, or, well, now), some articles really won't have stood the test of time. They might even seem somewhat ludicrous in retrospect: newyorker.com/news/daily-com… 
Preemptively suggesting that your opponents won't accept the results of elections if they lose isn't nearly as bad as, well, not accepting the results of elections, but it's still pretty bad. It's also, in this case, wrong: nytimes.com/2018/11/05/opi…
Good God, this is silly
(Also, whenever anyone starts off a sentence with "it's not hyperbole to say," you know you're in for it)
(Also, whenever anyone starts off a sentence with "it's not hyperbole to say," you know you're in for it)
And then there's this. I honestly can't fully grasp how someone managed to write this paragraph with a straight face. It's also a classic example of anti-democratic sentiment in the name of protecting democracy
Here's @jonathanchait, citing "How Democracies Die," which isn't a bad book, but helped fuel (in its overwrought and increasingly outdated Trump-related chapters) the whole alarmist "democracy is dying" genre: nymag.com/intelligencer/…
