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The Real Danger to Democracy | Joyce Vance & Stuart Stevens
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November 13, 2025
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Joyce Vance and Stuart Stevens trace how democratic decay thrives on resignation and revisionism—the impulse to surrender truth for comfort. Vance’s Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy makes the case that cynicism is a luxury no citizen can afford, warning that autocrats depend on exhaustion to win.
Stuart, always reflecting on his decades inside Republican politics, describes how compliance became a creed, breeding a party that mistook loyalty for strength and nostalgia for principle. It’s a reckoning with moral muscle memory, the need to rebuild courage where convenience has taken root. The message isn’t sentimental; it’s insurgent: democracy survives only when people choose to fight for it, again and again, even when they’re tired of trying.
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