📢"When ppl challenge the basic legitimacy of free & fair elections, democracy's in a very precarious place"—@dziblatt warns democracies die at the ballot box. GOP assault on voting rights across US is the biggest threat, w/ 2020 a dress rehearsal for what's coming in 2022, 2024. 
@dziblatt @brianstelter @ReliableSources Ziblatt: Dramatic transformations in our institutions are necessary given the scale of the threat US democracy faces. Democracy requires constant mending. We need to reform our institutions, protect voting rights. It's hard, grinding work. And may take more than 1 election cycle.
@dziblatt @brianstelter @ReliableSources #Democracy scholar: The US needs a dramatic reform movement to protect democracy. The reason American democracy thrived in the 20th Century is b/c in the beginning of the century, we reformed our democratic institutions in the progressive era. We need a new reform movement today.
@dziblatt @brianstelter @ReliableSources 🎯Ziblatt: Democracy is a self-correcting system that only works w/ a free flow of TRUE information. If politicians go too far to extremes, voters punish them. That system breaks down if mis/disinformation from propaganda media distorts facts & reality, and thus voter decisions.
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