Historians privately warn Biden: America's democracy is on the brink - The Washington Post - 0 views
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President Biden paused last week, during one of the busiest stretches of his presidency, for a nearly two-hour private history lesson from a group of academics who raised alarms about the dire condition of democracy at home and abroad.
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Comparisons were made to the years before the 1860 election when Abraham Lincoln warned that a “house divided against itself cannot stand” and the lead-up to the 1940 election, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt battled rising domestic sympathy for European fascism and resistance to the United States joining World War II.
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Biden, at these tabletop sessions, often spends hours asking questions and testing assumptions, participants say.
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