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Fully autocratic. its something in between. and it usually is a countries that are transitioning towards democracy, theyre becoming more democratic, or its countries that are backsliding. and theyre becoming less democratic. they enter this middle zoom. >> how should we think about -- how do we be precise and rigorous about these categories? i think what i like about the idea of this sort of middle shown is it needs something strange, sort of surreal, about the sleepwalking nature of quality of ...

Clarify the vice president does not have unbridled power. mcconnell says that he is open to fixing the act. mcconnell is probably betting a bipartisan effort to fix the electoral count act will distract from the reform that neither he nor any other republican senator appears to have any interest in supporting. regardless of the politics behind it, it needs reforming or eliminating. that alone will not prevent american democracy from backsliding. there are two other far more comprehensive efforts...

I think a lot of those wounds were self—inflicted. yeah, the fact that russia has authoritarian backsliding. who are we to blame for this? its us. we did it to ourselves, the fact that russia doesnt have freedoms that you would expect in a democratic country, the fact that there is serious corruption, all of those problems. i would not blame them on cia agents or western consultants. so we have this side of the problem. 0n the other hand, i also have to say that if we look across, notjust to t...

Are behind that progress, which is very important. sergey radchenko, how would you answer this? i mean, i know you dont speak on behalf of moscow, obviously. you are an academic. but you are russian—born. i will have to serve as the lightning rod here. in order to understand the problem oksana has alluded to, why has ukraine become a geopolitical flashpoint, we have to understand russia and where russia finds itself 30 years after the break—up of the soviet union. russia in many ways has bee...

Also to the modes of communication that were used to create the insurrection, the coup, and the demonstration that turned into a riot. >> i want to talk about your really moving new book, unthinkable. you write so lovingly and movingly about your son, tommy, who died by suicide. you describe yourself as a radical optimist in the book, but you also say youre bracing for the worst in 2024. you dont rule out street violence and electoral college violence. how does that scenario leave room for radic...

Yeah, the fact that russia has authoritarian backsliding. who are we to blame for this? its us. we did it to ourselves, the fact that russia doesnt have freedoms that you would expect in a democratic country, the fact that there is serious corruption, all of those problems. i would not blame them on cia agents or western consultants. so we have this side of the problem. on the other hand, i also have to say that if we look across, notjust to this crisis, but back, 30 years back, to what has tran...

Itself out of europe, maybe has shot itself out of europe. you know, as a russian, i think a lot of those wounds were self—inflicted. the fact that russia has authoritarian backsliding. who are we to blame for this? its us. we did it to ourselves, the fact that russia doesnt have freedoms that you would expect in a democratic country, the fact that there is serious corruption, all of those problems. i would not blame them on cia agents or western consultants. so we have this side of the proble...

Democracy is very much up for debate. what weve seen in that country is democratic backsliding, the idea that all of the norms, all of the markers for what is a thriving democracy have slid backwards. thats what weve seen in some other eastern european countries. carlson is holding it up as something to be learned from. why do they care so much about this country of 10 million people. the question should be bountced back to him, why is he so interested in hungary, this desire for a more authorit...

Fine. i dont want you infecting me and getting me sick so im going to change my behavior to avoid you. and so, when we start to engage in sort of larger behavioral patterns because one party refuses to actually tell the truth, and to allow people who are assumed to be talented and smart in their own right, to be able to actually do the things that they had trained to do, then we are backsliding as a democracy, and that is incredibly troubling. but yeah, i think, you know, the concern certainly i...

Them. barbara, i will admit that i never encounter that word before your op-ed. what is anocracy? what is that? >> thats just a fancy political science terms for partial democracy. its a government thats neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic. its something in between. and it usually is a countries that are transitioning towards democracy, theyre becoming more democratic, or its countries that are backsliding. and theyre becoming less democratic. they enter this middle zone. >> how should...