Three reasons America's democracy is under threat

For just a few weeks shy of eight years now, a certain class of Americans have been walking around in something close to a daze. The election of Donald Trump in 2016 blew to smithereens decades of conventional wisdom about the way many Americans view politics.

The ensuing years have seen even stranger things happen. In 2020, Trump came within a whisker of being re-elected — an astonishing result given the sheer chaos of his term in office.