One path that does not seem promising for the preservation of "liberal democracy": Increasing agitation for popular violence, sustained efforts at constitutional delegitimization from major stakeholders, roving paranoia, calls for economic/political unpersoning, etc.
Whatever it public-health benefits, sustained social distancing is also extremely destructive to political stability.
American elites have all too often sought to channel this instability into factional violence (from May 2020 onward). It's a catastrophic failure of leadership.
American elites have all too often sought to channel this instability into factional violence (from May 2020 onward). It's a catastrophic failure of leadership.
Or maybe they've attempted to try to harness such violence toward factional ends. Either way, a massive failure.
Two major things needed: a reconstruction of the lived conditions of political stability and a restoration of a sense of responsibility among the powerful.
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