Presidential Lecture: Daniel Ziblatt, Bestselling Author of ‘How Democracies Die’

[@vhyomet620]

5:15 start

[@benicia21]

6:32 - oh right, because Hilary was not rightfully anointed president, democracy is a risk……. Harvard sure has some big brained professors

[@rbettsx]

I've been back and listened to this passage 2 or 3 times. It concerns the rhetoric and behavior of Donald Trump once legitimately elected. At no point does it even remotely imply that Hilary Clinton should have been anointed president.

[@megorourke668]

Any chance the audio can be fixed here? Seems very quiet and hard to hear. Thanks!

[@tor-erikbakke1352]

Seems okay to me relatively to other youtube channels.

[@nigelloughnan9276]

Here here! The first American I’ve heard who realises the obvious (to the rest of us) weaknesses of the US constitution behind the recent extremism and the urgent need to democratise the system itself.

[@rbettsx]

The density of advertising in this recording is shameful, for an academic institution.

[@adamhustler3639]

I really don't know how you can talk about polarization as a cause of democratic death without looking at economic inequality as a cause of heightened polarization.

[@larryleerowley3838]

He did talk about economic inequality.

[@michaelmurvihill8813]

No one person can destroy a democracy. Trump's clumsy handling of Jan 6 could never have destroyed our Constitutional form of government. Democracies cannot be destroyed without the consent of the people.