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Does prosecuting Trump help or hurt the rule of law? Yes.

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Lets talk about solutions. what can we do to depolarize? can we unite a divided america? john avlon has some thoughts on that tonight in his reality check. >> as you know there have been boat loads of books and studies warning about the dangers to our democracy. all that is starting to sink in obviously culminating with january 6 and trumps attempt to overturn the election. a new npr poll shows 64% of americans think our democracy is in danger. in the search for solutions one recent study jumped...

One recent study really jumped out at me. by the folks at carnegie, particularly jennifer mccoy and ben press and its on what they call pernicious polarization. and how its affected other democracies around the world. they define pernicious polarization as basically when someones partisan identity starts affecting their oeshl identity, which is certainly something we are seeing here in the united states. and they looked at 52 countries around the world since 1950 that -- where polarization has i...

Where the crisis in American democracy might be headed.