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There has been accelerating doomer sentiment in recent days that democracy may be cooked, with President Donald Trump’s threats to deploy the National Guard in Chicago, extrajudicial bombings of foreign vessels at sea, and preening about ending mail-in voting exacerbating these fears. But historian, writer, and quasi-optimist Jill Lepore has thoughts about where the American constitutional experiment went astray and what might be deployed in order to save it. Lepore has a new book coming out, called We the People , and it’s her effort to pull the constitutional conversation out of the dead, frozen earth of the Founders, and to reignite a national conversation a

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