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Can Democrats Reverse America's Decline?

Joe Biden has stabilized America from the worst of Trump's excesses, but our nation is still losing the fight to protect human dignity.

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Max Burns
Mar 13, 2023
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It’s fair to worry that everything is going wrong.

I mean, who would blame you? For much of the past two decades our nation and our world have careened from barely-contained financial contagion in 2008 to the unexpected resurgence of right-wing authoritarianism after 2016, to a sprawling viral pandemic that worsened existing ideological rifts while creat…

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