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The Ezra Klein Show
The hosts cited the book to illustrate the point that party gatekeeping once helped protect democracy from demagogues like Trump.
The point that Levitsky and Ziblatt make in How Democracies Die, which is like a big book a couple of years ago, leads to the idea that parties once acted as a gatekeeper against demagogues.
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The hosts cited the book to illustrate the point that party gatekeeping once helped protect democracy from demagogues like Trump.
The point that Levitsky and Ziblatt make in How Democracies Die, which is like a big book a couple of years ago, leads to the idea that parties once acted as a gatekeeper against demagogues.