Trump Lost the Citizenship Debate, but He’s Still Corroding Our Politics

Trump is sowing the seeds for democratic erosion, but he’s doing so through smaller, more insidious actions

Brendan Nyhan
GEN
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4 min readJul 15, 2019

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DDoes Donald Trump present a threat to American democracy, or is the system restraining him? As last week’s debate over the census citizenship question illustrates…

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Brendan Nyhan
GEN
Writer for

Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan