One of the biggest looming threats to our democracy is not that a foreign actor will broadly change votes or registrations in the 2018 elections, but that Americans will use this to doubt election results they don't want to believe /1 nbcnews.com/politics/elect… Suppose we discover around Nov. 6 that a foreign power breached election systems somehow somewhere in America; many, many people are going to wonder if we caught every case of interference & conspiracists are of course going to run wild /2

.@CoreyRobin minimizes Trump's threat to democracy in this article; that's a defensible position, but he uses some highly flawed reasoning; a few points: /1 theguardian.com/us-news/commen… 1st, Robin focuses on a contrast b/w Trump & Hitler, noting how rapidly Hitler consolidated power; this is not the right comparison nor the one knowledgeable political scientists make; the most relevant cases display slow dem erosion (Ven, Hung, Turkey, Poland) /2