Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Is American Democracy Really in Trouble?

A lot of democratic norms have been violated in recent years. But the system isn’t the problem.

November 8, 2019 at 11:33 AM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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The political scientist Thomas Pepinsky argued recently that the U.S. is on the verge of a “regime cleavage,” by which he means: