Our institutions have held up pretty well against the greatest stress test they've faced since the Civil War.
https://twitter.com/JuliusGoat/status/1422528122898030617
The courts shot him down, the states ignored him, the military did their job, his own DOJ told him to fuck off. These are not lucky accidents, this is centuries of instilling civic duty paying off.
Americans like America! They think democracy is important because for most people there's an inherent human need to be part of something bigger and more important than yourself. Unfortunately a lot of blue checks are flabbergasted anyone could believe that last thing.
Also elected officials have very little incentive to delegitimize democracy, since that's the source of their legitimacy.
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