The United States has been a constantly evolving democracy ever since it was founded in 1776, but its survival as a democracy is now gravely endangered.
A set of loosely interconnected developments at home and abroad is responsible for this crisis.
From abroad, the U.S. is threatened by repressive regimes led by Xi Jinping in China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia, who want to impose autocratic forms of government on the world.
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