{
  "id": 8243823,
  "title": "To protect democracy, Democrats should talk about corruption – not authoritarianism | Jared Abbott and Joan C Williams",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/to-protect-democracy-democrats-should-talk-about-corruption-not",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-18T12:00:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/18/democrats-corruption-authoritarianism"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The party needs to thread the needle between college-educated and working-class voters. Our survey offers a way Resisting authoritarianism is the second-highest priority for Democrats’ college-educated base. But for working-class Americans, it’s only the 19th priority (out of 20), we found in a new survey . The gap between these two groups was larger than on any other issues: elites prioritized…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}