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“Often it’s the people who populate them who are flawed, not the institutional framework itself.”

“When the public perpetuates narratives that the institutions are broken and talks about walking away from them, it plays into his hands and makes his ascension to power that much easier. The path to autocracy is littered with battered and broken institutions. If you want to preserve democracy, fight for the institutions.”

“Though far from perfect, the system that was born with the taint of racism and misogyny has also proven itself capable of improvement, even if it is incremental.”