"Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The Washington Roundtable is joined by Robert Kagan, a historian and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, for a conversation about the pressures facing American democracy, the security of elections, and how these domestic tensions interact with the collapse of international norms."
"Nearly a decade after his prescient 2016 column for the Washington Post, "This Is How Fascism Comes to America," Kagan contends that the U.S. has moved beyond the warning and into a full democratic crisis. "There is no chance in the world that Donald Trump is gonna allow himself to lose in the 2026 elections, because that will be the end of his ability to wield total power in the United States, " Kagan says."
American democracy faces escalating pressures that threaten electoral security and institutional integrity. Domestic political tensions are interacting with a broader collapse of international norms, reducing democratic resilience at home and abroad. Longstanding concerns have escalated into a full democratic crisis, with some political actors prepared to subvert electoral outcomes to retain power. A prominent political figure is unlikely to accept a loss in the 2026 election because conceding would end his ability to wield total power in the United States. The convergence of weakened norms, insecure elections, and concentrated ambitions for unchecked rule poses an acute threat to democratic governance.
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