The 2020 election was a stress test for the American political system. How well it fared is a matter of dispute: Where some see strong political institutions that successfully repulsed Donald Trump’s anti-democratic onslaught, others see rickety ones that could very well buckle and collapse in the coming years.
Ross Douthat, the New York Times columnist, takes the former view. He sees what happened in 2020 as a problem created by the combination of Trump’s unique disregard for democratic norms and a flawed set of laws governing presidential elections — but,…
