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Cato Video • December 11, 2020 

# What Has 2020 Taught Us about Democracy? 

What has the election revealed about the country? And what does this say about who Americans really are, what they want and where we are headed? In this episode, Elaine Kamarck, Founding Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution; P. J. O’Rourke, bestselling author and H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute; and Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor for *National Review* and visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute discuss: what has 2020 taught us about democracy?

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##### Elaine Kamarck 

Senior Fellow in Governance Studies and Founding Director, Center for Effective Public Management, Brookings Institution

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##### Ramesh Ponnuru 

Senior Editor, *National Review*

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##### [P.J. O’Rourke](/people/pj-orourke)

H. L. Mencken Research Fellow