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Column: He warned democracy was in peril. And that was before the Capitol riot

It’s not as if Tom Mann is happy to say I told you so.

  • Mark Z. Barabak
  • Los Angeles Times

After decades as a leading expert on Congress and our fragile American experiment in democracy, Mann shed his impartiality and scholarly distance and co-wrote a clanging alarm of a book that said government was…

“It’s Even Worse Than It Looks” didn’t steer a middle course by blaming “both sides,” or countenance the “well, what about” school of reductive reasoning — as in, “Well, what about Hillary’s emails?” — which shrinks…

The problem, Mann and coauthor Norman Ornstein stated, was a Republican Party captive to its most unhinged elements.

“The GOP has become an…

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