democracy

His remarks set off alarm bells about America’s collapsing democracy.

And, despite the partisan Supreme Court, the reason that we are still holding on to democracy is because the system still works, albeit like a ’78 Chevy with the doors rusting off.

Lula described the meeting as an opportunity to "restore" friendly relations between "the two largest Western democracies" and reiterated that the US had a trade surplus with Brazil.

“Somebody, sometime, has got to take a stand and say democracy cannot survive, much less thrive with the level of big corporate and big government interference and intimidation in news.”

That evening, I wrote an essay about what the crisis and shattering of norms would mean for America’s ailing democracy.