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This is the political scene, and I'm David Remnick.

Donald Trump's contempt for democracy is a matter of fact.

An impulse registered again and again throughout his presidency in its aftermath.

As so many, including those in his circle, warned, he would never accept legitimacy of Biden's election.

And of course, he provoked an insurrection attempting to stop that election, and he has faced no consequences for it so far.

There was some buzzing after the midterm elections that Trump's influence on the GOP had finally burned out.

But the fact is that he's running for president and he leads the Republican field.

In 2018, at the midpoint of the Trump presidency,

the journalist and historian John Meacham wrote a book called The Soul of America,

and it warned of the gravity of Trump's threat to democracy.

Now, this was hardly a unique point of view, but Meacham's particular way of putting things,

steeped in a kind of critical reverence for American history, hit home with one reader in particular,

Joe Biden. And in the years since, Meeecham became an informal advisor to Biden,

helping him with the last state of the union address and other speeches. John Meecham's books

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