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President Donald Trump isn\u2019t a threat to American democracy on a metaphorical level. He\u2019s a threat to the country\u2019s entire political structure, literally, according to two academics who have studied American democracy throughout history and wrote a whole book on the topic. Dr. Robert C. Lieberman, Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University and co-author of Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy, joined Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast on this episode of The New Abnormal to share which of the \u201cfour pillars\u201d that help sustain democracy Trump has completely bulldozed over (hint: all of them.) According to Dr. Lieberman, that\u2019s a big problem. \u201cThe American democratic system is supposed to keep one person or one small group from gaining all the levers of power at the same time. And that's where things have kind of fallen down,\u201d he says. See, these threats have always crept up in our history (even Alexander Hamilton was involved in partisan games) but Leiberman says it\u2019s the \u201cpiling of threats on top of each other\u201d that triggers the alarms. (\u201cTrump seems to have an unerring instinct to make just about every situation, worse. He is a product of this confluence of threats. He is a product of the time.\u201d) The team also hears from Rev. Warnock, who is running for Senate in Georgia\u2019s special election race against Sen. Kelly Loeffler and would become the first Black Senator for Georgia if he won, \u201cat a time in which we're dealing with a renewed conversation and reckoning around our age old problem of race and racism in this country.\u201d Plus! Rick tells Molly the cold, hard truth about the future of the Supreme Court and the two discuss why the GOP is headed for an Ice Age, just how sketchy Deutsche Bank is, and of course, Trump\u2019s \u201call kinds of illegal\u201d tax revelations.

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