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Is the end nigh? Maybe, but we’ve survived so far

Is the end nigh? Maybe, but we’ve survived so far

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Virginia Heffernan
Jan 03, 2022
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Nothing keeps sleep at bay these days like huffing up a few articles about democracy’s doomsday.

Barton Gellman, America’s ranking Cassandra, anticipated “the death of the body politic” in a recent essay in the Atlantic. Donald Trump is staging a comeback, Gellman wrote, and crafting ways to subvert the vote if it doesn’t go his way. If Trump makes it ba…

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