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Democrats need to stop defending a broken democratic system

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Julian Zelizer : Voters chose the state of democracy as their top priority over any other issue.

He says with the exception of abortion, voters who cited other issues as top priority broke for Trump .

Zelizer says many voters don't believe democracy is benefitting them or that the American political system is worth preserving.

Democrats failed to pass policies on voting rights, abortion, and gun control that a majority of Americans favored.

Democrats also actively shut down any discussion of the structural flaws to American democracy.

Democrats have to go back to being the party of political and economic reform that challenges rather than celebrates a political system that is leaving too much behind.

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