Listen "Is There Really Democracy in America?"
Episode Synopsis
Mike talks with Osita Nwanevu, a contributing editor at The New Republic, columnist at The Guardian, and the Democratic Institutions fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. He’s also the author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding, which they discuss on this episode
Topics Mike & Osita cover include:
why democracy is the best political system
the ‘folk theory’ of democracy
if Americans actually care about democracy
democracy and demagogues
grounding principles for modern democracy
the Framers’ views of democracy
reforms to make the US system more democratic
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Topics Mike & Osita cover include:
why democracy is the best political system
the ‘folk theory’ of democracy
if Americans actually care about democracy
democracy and demagogues
grounding principles for modern democracy
the Framers’ views of democracy
reforms to make the US system more democratic
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Check out the excellent Sustainable Planet podcast.
Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo, we’re @PoliticsGuys.
The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it.
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