Democracy Quote by Jamelle Bouie

The 2020 presidential election was arguably the most secure - and among the most scrutinized - in American history.

— Jamelle Bouie

Racial hysteria has been a part of many winning campaigns in our country. But it's rarely the only part.

— Jamelle Bouie

Texas's official hostility toward gender nonconforming children has had the predictable effect of pushing families out of the state in search of less hostile…

— Jamelle Bouie

Trump was not helped by either of his impeachments, and there's no reason other than his own mythology to think that a trial and…

— Jamelle Bouie

If 'The Lord of the Rings' is a cautionary tale about the desire for power and the use of power, then it is a…

— Jamelle Bouie

By no means is Trump the first president or even the first Republican president to abuse the power of the office in an effort…

— Jamelle Bouie

For liberals in particular, the idea that government is only hypocrisy and dysfunction is self-defeating and nihilistic.

— Jamelle Bouie

Nineteenth-century American politics were notoriously raucous, with frequent violence in and around elections.

— Jamelle Bouie

Trump did not win the 2016 presidential election solely on the votes of his base; he won it after he consolidated wavering Republicans and…

— Jamelle Bouie

Trump's authoritarian instincts - his refusal to accept or even learn the rules of the constitutional system - are a huge part of the…

— Jamelle Bouie

Americans tend to focus on external threats to our democracy: foreign adversaries wielding disinformation and subversion. But the most serious dangers have always come…

— Jamelle Bouie

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is notorious for his efforts to secure 'election integrity' through voter purges and other efforts to shrink the…

— Jamelle Bouie