{"id":4671,"date":"2022-01-10T08:37:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T13:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4671"},"modified":"2022-01-10T08:37:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T13:37:54","slug":"are-our-elections-policies-fueling-toxic-politics-a-qa-with-lee-drutman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/are-our-elections-policies-fueling-toxic-politics-a-qa-with-lee-drutman\/","title":{"rendered":"Are our elections policies fueling toxic politics? A Q&A with Lee Drutman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cPolitics ain\u2019t bean bag<\/a>,\u201d quipped the late 19th century, fictional barfly and political analyst, Mr. Dooley. That is an eternal truth about American politics, wherein combatants have deployed everything from lies to bribes to fists, clubs, and even \u201cviolent laxatives<\/a>\u201d to win office and get their way. Yet, last year\u2019s invasion of the Capitol along with the\u00a0various riots and efforts to intimidate election administrators<\/a>\u00a0shocked many Americans. Is representative democracy on the ropes?\u00a0Lee Drutman<\/a>, a senior fellow at New America,\u00a0thinks so<\/a>…. (Read more<\/strong>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cPolitics ain\u2019t bean bag,\u201d quipped the late 19th century, fictional barfly and political analyst, Mr. Dooley. That is an eternal truth about American politics, wherein combatants have deployed everything from lies to bribes to fists, clubs, and even \u201cviolent laxatives\u201d to win office and get their way. Yet, last year\u2019s invasion of the Capitol along […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[225],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-4671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-reform","tag-aei-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1dl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4672,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671\/revisions\/4672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}