Authors and academics Daniel Ziblatt & Stephen Levitsky join us today to discuss their new book, ‘How Democracies Die.’ The pre-Cold War coup-centric deaths of democracies, and how elections ended democracies during the cold war. The importance of institutions to making democracies last long. The gatekeeping capacity of political parties. How the GOP has abdicated responsibility for maintaining democracy and became a white identity party. What happens when it’s one side breaking the norms? Does the GOP need to be met with its own tactics? Why the GOP becoming more diverse is the simplest available option.

And for members, Howard Zinn on the Majority Report on March 21, 2006.