Americans May Be Turning Against Representative Democracy Along With Commitment to Democratic Values

Source: The UnPopulist
by Thomas Shull

“After Jan. 6, 2021, any future election involving Donald Trump was going to make a sizable bloc of Americans anxious about the state of U.S. democracy. Trump’s persistent, months-long lead over President Joe Biden in surveys of the 2024 presidential race thus raises what would once have been viewed as a pointless question: Just how committed are Americans to representative democracy? Now come two recently published survey reports not on the presidential race, but rather on Americans’ views of democracy itself …” (04/18/24)

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/americans-may-be-turning-against