America’s excessively counter-majoritarian institutions reinforce extremism, empower authoritarian minorities, and threaten minority rule. To overcome these problems, we must double down on democracy. This means dismantling spheres of undue minority protection and empowering majorities at all levels of government; it means ending constitutional protectionism and unleashing real political competition; it means bringing the balance of political power more closely in line with the balance of voter preferences; and it means forcing our politicians to be more responsive and accountable to
...more
