Then he delivered a coup de grâce: “That’s how a democracy withers, until it’s no democracy at all.”Barack Obama would say that, wouldn’t he? Photograph: DNC/AFP/Getty ImagesBut you don’t have to listen to Obama to hear alarm bells ringing over the health of American democracy. “Our democracy is deeply imperiled,” said Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice, the go-to authority on all things electoral. But in the run-up to this election, voter suppression techniques are being taken to the next level. It all amounts to a cumulative chipping away at the load-bearing structures of American democracy that has left our five panelists greatly unnerved.

Source: The Guardian September 09, 2020 07:01 UTC