Fareed Zakaria: ‘The Most Consequential Casualty of the Recent Confirmation Battle Is… American Democracy’

RUSH EXCERPT:
ZAKARIA: "First, here is my take. The most consequential casualty of the recent confirmation battle is not Christine blasey Ford or Brett Kavanaugh. It’s the Supreme Court and thus, American democracy. The court was one of the last bastions that towered above the fray. It’s now part of the dysfunction that has overwhelmed almost the entire American political system. When I wrote a book about illiberal democracy, what saved the country were checks and balances on majority rule from the bill of rights to the Senate to the judicial system. I was struck that in surveys, the three governmental institutions that commanded the most respect were ironically all fundamentally non-democratic.”