What will the future of American democracy look like? | Ben Jones for Vox In the spring of 2015, few outlets predicted that the US would soon face a democratic crisis. Barack Obama was the president, and the conventional wisdom was that he’d be succeeded by Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush. Donald Trump wouldn’t announce his presidential bid until June, and most people in Washington treated it as a big joke when he did. But that March, Vox co-founder Matt Yglesias published an essay with a darkly prescient title: “American democracy is doomed.”  Presidential systems, the late political sc...

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