Participants seen holding a banner at a Manhattan No Kings protest. | Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images
The status of American democracy feels paradoxical: somehow both damaged and well-functioning at the same time.
On the one hand, the United States has a president who is acting like a dictator: threatening to wipe out an entire civilization, menacing allies with threats to annex their territory, targeting domestic enemies with spurious criminal investigations, and deploying masked armed forces to cities.
On the other hand, his ambitions have been continually frustrated by...
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