Nate Silver: “It’s prudent to consider worst-case scenarios. What makes the situation especially hard to assess is that there’s no particularly clear precedent for the situation the United States finds itself in right now. No country with this long a democratic tradition has faced this much of a threat to it, and the U.S. is exceptional in general for being the wealthiest nation in world history, perhaps on the verge of a profound economic and technological transformation.”
“No one should be confident about how the story ends. But it can also be hard to see the world through clear eyes when you’re constantly in crisis mode.”
“For instance, I think it’s reasonable to feel more optimistic about democracy after what’s happened in Minneapolis.”
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