Four years ago, in the depths of the pandemic, a few weeks before the 2020 election, I wrote this:
In normal times, Americans don’t think much about democracy. Our Constitution, with its guarantees of free press, speech, and assembly, was written more than two centuries ago. Our electoral system has never failed, not during two world wars, not even dur…
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