Democratic backsliding and multiracial democracy. A response to the 2021 Jorde symposium lecture by Steven Levitsky

We live in an anxious era, particularly about the possibility of multiethnic democracy. The polarization of American democracy in general, accelerated by Trumpism in particular, has challenged narratives of race as gradually declining in significance. Instead, conventional wisdom suggests that Trumpism results directly from rising racial resentment of a White population that fears losing its relative power. "Dog Whistle Politics" have been discarded in favor of openly nativist appeals, including by media figures such as Tucker Carlson.