"The responsible press cannot ignore them either, but what journalists owe this subset of Americans is a live question: How should local and regional news outlets cover authoritarian candidates who draw support from a substantial percentage of the electorate?"
"In retrospect, this approach rested on two assumptions: that parties would act as gatekeepers to present reasonable candidates, and that voters would act as an ultimate backstop in rejecting anti-democratic candidates."
"My research calls for media to give voice only to those who extend tolerance to others. Tolerance is not neutral in an absolutist sense—it extends only to candidates who are themselves tolerant."
"Benjamin Schupmann acknowledges that it would be better to simply defeat antidemocrats at the ballot box, yet history shows this does not always happen."
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