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This. there are so many regimes around the world that have adopted trump's, you know, name-calling, calling organizations fake news and using things like the enemy of the people to defame journalists and so on. >> it's very, very troubling and very dangerous. it emboldens leaders around the world to abuse the press, to clamp down on the press. the republican party -- most republicans in office and running for office, part of their brand is to denigrate and delegitimize the press. and the really harmful thing is that makes it so that citizens don't believe what some of the best reporters and jo...

As we close another night reflecting on the state of democracy and how it's going to be saved, one thing is clear. it's going to take all of us. everyone on the left and the right to reach solutions. but how do we do that in the age of toxic tribalism and the big lie? perhaps, it is a matter of realizing the dangers of illiberalism. that is a concept john avlon's going to break down in tonight's reality check. it is an important topic. >> it sure is. it goes to the heart of what we are dealing with right now because, jim, the poisonous polarization, it is the feedback loop that drives american...

Demographic change taking place in realtime and all this can fuel political backlash as liberal "new york times" columnist michelle goldberg pointed out in a recent essay called has the left gone wrong? they have come to believe the language of social justice left is needlessly alienating she wrote the broader left got to let go of the illusion there exists voters waiting to be roused by a radical message. that means progressives got to go into elections with the electorate they have. one that is more conservative than the one they would like. that is an important concession to reality because...

Doing this. and so the republican party is now a far-right party, an authoritarian party, which is not invested or interested anymore in the practice of democracy. >> all right. ruth ben-ghiat, thank you so much for those insights. we appreciate it. always great to talk to you. thanks for your time. and if trump does run in 2024, there could be very different people in positions of power to oversee elections and key battleground states. people who might actually be willing to find him the votes next time, like this. >> i believe it was stolen, yeah. >> there you go. much more in a special re...

Strongmen in the past have done, he scanned the political marketplace, and he saw an opening in creating a kind of big tent for all the malcontents, all the extremists, and allowing the gop to partner with him to realize this kind of fantasy built on lies and, you know, white christian utopia because both of them know that the gop, you know, can't win the popular vote. it needs to use trickery to have minority rule because it won't accept what we are in america, which is a multiracial democracy, something to be proud of. instead, it creates this universe full of, you know, fantasies and lies. ...