literally. the whole stadium literally rocked and moved. it was just a great scene. i used to go with my late father-in-law who lived locally. we d go. we d just have a great time. that just seems all lost. yeah, they moved way out to maryland. the soulless, huge i think it is still fedex field. railings are falling off. it is not the experience it was. it was one of the truly greatest experiences in, not just in the nfl, but in football. hey, i went to michigan. i know football experiences. this was a great football experience. right. in the past. lemire, let s talk about again, the contrasts of where they are now and where they were before dan snyder, i mean, it was those redskins games,
conspiracy theories that could have been mickey mouse i m watching going this is the craziest thing i ve ever seen. and people bought it. lawsuits they try to not have your votes counted. they did not want your vote to count. potentially illegal pressure campaigns. i just want to find 11,780 votes. what he was asking for wasn t supported by the facts, wasn t supported by the constitution. extraordinary scheming. let s talk about just breathtaking that you would have laid out such a clear game plan that so clearly violated the constitution. and all too many in the republican party we believe this was a free and fair election. and maga media who followed along. unverifiable dumps of votes.
would like to believe. joining me now professor and author of how civil wars start and how to stop them. wow. it is great to meet you. i first read your book in my colleague s column. compelling and a very good read. i want to put one of the excerpts that stuck out to me and have you talk about it. and i think it s the one where well, let s talk about let s go to democracy in decline where you write, no one wants to believe that their beloved democracy is in decline or headed toward war. the decay is often so incremental that people often fail to notice or understand it, even as they are experiencing
there are republicans who are willing to make concessions if that if their concerns are also addressed in some ways. paul, let s talk about, we re almost nearly, this week we ll hit one year for the president, president biden. he marks that with bad news. a string of bad news. election reforms on the verge of failure, supreme court striking down his vaccine mandate for businesses. omicron spreading still. his job approval 42% in the latest cnn poll of polls. how does the president hit reset and turn the tide here? yeah, terrible week, but a good year, i think. he got his recovery act through which we forget about. in the first 100 days or so. remarkable piece of legislation to cut child poverty in half. he wants to extend it. congress right now hasn t been able to do so. he got a bipartisan infrastructure bill, with 19 senate republicans on board. so, yes, he can work with republicans. he was very successful in that. but i think you re right. he needs a reset. my own counsel to h
democracy is not in peril because we re still going to keep voting. yes, that s a wonderful point. both historically and in the contemporary world you can have a kind of degradation where elections cease to become a legitimating principle, slowly, slowly become something like a ritual. and it s very hard to know just exactly what point your country stopped being a democracy. historically this has been true. there are contemporary cases where this is true. like, for example, russia. russians had a couple of free elections and then from a certain point, they were no longer free. hungarians had a series of free elections but the elections can no longer be considered to be fair. so you got your fing or something very important. it s not going to be because we stop having elections. the person who overturns democracy in this country will groebl it on the occasion of some kind of an election and then try to have ritualistic elections thereafter. let s talk about, obviously,