Since 2016’s election of a populist American president and the British people voting the same year to leave the European union, some have been asking a variation of the question, “Is this the beginning of the end for democracy?”

Is this an overreaction, a wise word of caution or a prophetic warning?

Mark Lockard and Shane Raynor discuss strengths and weaknesses of democracy today and the tensions that make it work (and sometimes ... not.)