Daniel Ziblatt is delusional and dense

Daniel Ziblatt

Polarization is a big factor. If political rivals regard each other as existential threats, they’re less willing to grant those protections to their political opponents. And people become polarized for various reasons — sometimes it’s about ideology, sometimes it’s about race or religion. Whatever the emotive issues dividing people happen to be, polarization makes it harder to grant these rights to the “other” side.

Daniel Ziblatt

[n the USA] Polarization’s a huge factor. The two parties, increasingly, see each other as enemies, not rivals. So the temptations to violate norms like forbearance are much, much stronger.But there’s also been a huge transformation of the party system in the US after the Civil Rights era and the clustering of ethnicity into two different parties. 

There are real existential threats to political rivals, the small states are disappearing you frigging idiot.

This is a real existential threat, Wyoming is unlikely to survive another few years, neither is Vermont.  Many more of these small states in our republic (not a democracy) will go under.   Bernie is not running to bring us socialism, he is running to save Vermont as Vermont does not survive without federal subsidies.

How do American political science colleges produce such ignorance? These idiots cannot distinguish proportional democracy from a republic.  Why the delusions, why  not try reading the Constitution and deriving the instability from that document.
Here is another:

Does Democracy Really Exist?

The House is, the Senate is not.  

Question answered, the rest of the crap from both Buchanan and Tim Kirby is just that crap.