A crucial year
2024 is certain to be a trying year for our republic. Our freedom and self-government will be tested, potentially to the point of breaking. Every citizen, in ways big and small, will face choice points that could shape whether or not our democracy survives.
If You Can Keep It breaks down the top issues in authoritarianism and democracy in the United States. It is brought to you free of cost by Protect Democracy. But it exists exclusively to equip you with what you need to know about what’s happening in our democracy and what you can do about it.
Our experts go deep on the critical stories and complex issues beyond partisanship and campaign politics. Can the 2024 election be conducted freely and fairly? Will the next president be committed to constitutional government — or at least constrained by checks & balances? How can we ensure democratic decision-making is based on a shared, fact-based reality? What are the reforms necessary to build a more representative, inclusive, and resilient democracy?
But this is nothing new. Democracy has never been self-sustaining. As Benjamin Franklin famously said — when asked what kind of government the Constitutional Convention had produced — “A Republic, if you can keep it.”
We must find a way.
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