{"id":31341,"date":"2024-03-19T11:35:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T15:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=31341"},"modified":"2024-03-19T21:27:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T01:27:14","slug":"bidens-democracy-agenda-is-limited-by-trump-is-against-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=31341","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s democracy agenda is limited but Trump is against democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tisch College Dean Dayna Cunningham and I have a piece in <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/us-democracys-unaddressed-flaws-undermine-bidens-stand-as-democracys-defender-but-trump-keeps-favoring-political-violence-221567?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=bylinefacebookbutton&amp;fbclid=IwAR1qASOkY4HpWGR7Xf9fd2xoMdLVamZuxIkPJojlfbZNBxOYVoU7q1XYlyg\">The Conversation <\/a>today. We begin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>President Joe Biden argues that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/05\/us\/politics\/biden-speech-trump-jan-6.html\">democracy is on the ballot<\/a>\u201d in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We believe there are potential threats to U.S. democracy posed by the choices voters make in this election. But the benefits of American democracy have for centuries been unequally available, and any discussion of the current threats needs to happen against that background. &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For us, Biden\u2019s talk of democracy is a useful starting point for a broader conversation about U.S. democracy and the 2024 election. &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tisch College Dean Dayna Cunningham and I have a piece in The Conversation today. We begin: President Joe Biden argues that \u201cdemocracy is on the ballot\u201d in the 2024 election. We believe there are potential threats to U.S. democracy posed by the choices voters make in this election. But the benefits of American democracy have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,34,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-election","category-trump","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31347,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31341\/revisions\/31347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}