{"id":525,"date":"2025-11-21T07:03:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/11\/21\/american-democracy-is-very-much-alive-though-not-in-all-regards-well-marginal-revolution\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T07:03:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:03:52","slug":"american-democracy-is-very-much-alive-though-not-in-all-regards-well-marginal-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/11\/21\/american-democracy-is-very-much-alive-though-not-in-all-regards-well-marginal-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"American democracy is very much alive, though not in all regards well &#8211; Marginal REVOLUTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Senate also sided with the House on the Epstein files.&nbsp; Nate Silver and many others write about how Trump is now quite possibly a lame duck President.<\/p>\n<p>I do not doubt that there are many bad policies, and also much more corruption, and a more transparent form of corruption, which is corrosive in its own right.&nbsp; But it was never the case that American democracy was going to disappear.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2025\/11\/american-democracy-is-alive-and-well.html\">marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2025\/11\/american-democracy-is-alive-and-well.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate also sided with the House on the Epstein files.&nbsp; Nate Silver and many others write about how Trump is now quite possibly a lame duck President. I do not doubt that there are many bad policies, and also much more corruption, and a more transparent form of corruption, which is corrosive in its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,38],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-democracy","tag-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}