The precarious state of American democracy is one of the fundamental issues at stake in this election, but it can be hard to understand the exact nature of the risk posed if former President Donald Trump wins a second term.
At Vox, senior correspondent Zack Beauchamp has spent the last 10 years reporting on democracy, both here and abroad. He has watched with growing alarm Trump’s emergence as a political force, and how his disregard for democracy has warped our nation’s politics. In the final days before this election, Zack urges his fellow Americans to take the risk Trumpism brings seriously: A second Trump term really could be an extinction-level threat for American democracy.
As Zack writes:
