Krauthammer: ‘This Has Been One of the Worst Years for American Democracy’

‘It’s been one of the lowest, least elevating campaigns ever’

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KRAUTHAMMER: “In a sense I think this has been one of the worst years for American democracy in general. It's been one of the lowest, least elevating campaigns ever. We have not been enriched or enlightened by it. I think the reason things are the same is because we have never had two candidates who were better known at the beginning. Name recognition way up there. Probably in the 90s before they started. In other words, people knew who they were and character is destiny. We have a year of them on the stage and they basically showed us their character, which is what we thought it was at the beginning, untrustworthy, unfit in some cases, cynical, et cetera. And we are where we are. Nothing is really changed in that respect, other than we've reached lows in tactics, in incivility that we didn't think we'd ever see at the presidential level.”
 

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