Is the Trump presidency a threat to constitutional democracy? …
Americans largely agree on which principles of democracy matter most, but they are deeply divided over whether these principles are being violated or upheld. These divides have grown deeper in the past two years — leaving only a few principles that, if violated, could trigger a defense of democracy among supporters and opponents of Trump.
Since 2017, our group, Bright Line Watch, has surveyed Americans about democratic principles. In a new article in “Perspectives on Politics,” we draw on four surveys taken between September 2017 and July 2018 that measure both how important people perceive 27 principles to be and how they think the United States is upholding those principles. Here is what we found. CONT.
John M. Carey, Gretchen Helmke, Brendan Nyhan, Mitchell Sanders & Susan C. Stokes, Monkey Cage