They predicted the current political landscape. Hear their new prediction

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They predicted the current political landscape. Hear their new prediction

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Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, co-authors of "How Democracies Die," tell CNN's Anderson Cooper that American democracy has never been under threat in the way it is now.

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