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The American History Podcast, season five, episode two, selected, not elected.

Welcome to the American History podcast.

Hosted by Sean Worswick.

All right, welcome back to the show. I'm Sean, and this is The Great Enravelling. Now, the last

episode, we killed the civility myth, showing how political warfare was already well-established

decades before Trump appeared on the scene. The Bork hearings in 1987, Gingrich's weaponized

language memo in the 1990s, the Clinton impeachment circus,

all proof that are supposed golden age of civil politics never actually existed.

Now, this week, we're examining how both parties learn to delegitimize elections they don't win.

It's a 24-year story of escalating mistrust that began with hanging chads in Florida

and ended with Americans storming the Capitol. But here's the thing most people miss. This isn't a

story about one party being uniquely anti-democratic. Instead, this is a story about both parties

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