Legitimate political discourse! Seven people died in connection with the attack, 140 police officers were hurt and 734 people have been prosecuted on charges ranging up to seditious conspiracy.

Legitimate political discourse is based on persuasion, not coercion or violence. Two scholars of communication and democracy explain the difference. Sign in or Subscribe See Offers ...

Instead, legitimacy has been negotiated behind closed doors between dynastic political parties and non-democratic forces, driving the creation, collapse, and renegotiation of the social contract.

That doesn’t make the current President’s comments about 2022 wise. To begin with, every contemporary and historical marker of political conditions points toward a fair and legitimate ...

Monkey Cage The RNC called the Jan. 6 events ‘legitimate political discourse.’ What does that even mean? Democracy can accommodate disruptive protests — but not coercive attacks ...

The region has been paying a horrifying price for its conflict with Israel for the past half century. We were told that Israel was a fragile polity propped up more by foreign support with limited ...

George W. Bush faced the stolen election legitimacy trope for years. It was widely touted at the 2004 DNC convention, it limited W's room for maneuver in office and kicked off the modern anti ...

Polarization has been part of American politics since the beginning, but this year it went into overdrive and turned into questions of legitimacy for our democracy, a far more dangerous scenario.

And, “Is seditious conspiracy legitimate political discourse?” Because the leader of the far right Oath Keepers and 10 others, all with ties to the Jan. 6 insurrection, ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's legitimacy could be imperiled if Americans come to view its members as trying to impose personal preferences on society, liberal Justice Elena Kagan said on Wednesday in ...

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Internal party democracy is a crucial aspect of a healthy political system. Promoting democratic practices within parties is essential for strengthening democracy, enhancing party legitimacy, and ...