Sure democracy is messy and lots of people feel it’s not working as well as it once did.  But all of us born here have never lived under the alternative.  Be careful what you wish for if you are taking in, and buying, all the strongman musings of Donald Trump. It’s a recipe for disaster.  In a previous podcast one of our guests described a liberal democracy as meaning ‘no boss’.  We run things at the city, state and federal level.  And we have the power to change things by reforming that which is not working in the best interests of the majority of us.  But turning the whole thing over to a man who has hallucinations that he’s the chosen one and wants to pump up a version of Christian nationalism is not the way forward.  Joining us to discuss this is Richard Abel, a Professor of Law Emeritus at UCLA and the author of “Defending American Democracy”,a new mini-series of books.