Mike talks with Osita Nwanevu, a contributing editor at The New Republic, columnist at The Guardian, and the Democratic Institutions fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. He’s also the author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding, which they discuss on this episode

Topics Mike & Osita cover include:

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  why democracy is the best political system

  
  


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  the ‘folk theory’ of democracy

  
  


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  if Americans actually care about democracy

  
  


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  democracy and demagogues

  
  


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  grounding principles for modern democracy

  
  


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  the Framers’ views of democracy

  
  


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  reforms to make the US system more democratic

  
  

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