A Stark Warning About the 2026 Election, with Robert Kagan
Can American democracy come back from the brink?
“The Washington Roundtable is joined by Robert Kagan, a historian and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, for a conversation about the pressures facing American democracy, the security of elections, and how these domestic tensions interact with the collapse of international norms. Nearly a decade after his prescient 2016 column [shared here] for the Washington Post, “This Is How Fascism Comes to America,” Kagan contends that the U.S. has moved beyond the warning and into a full democratic crisis. “There is no chance in the world that Donald Trump is gonna allow himself to lose in the 2026 elections, because that will be the end of his ability to wield total power in the United States,” Kagan says.”
Shared version of Robert Kagan’s Washington Post article in 2016 here >
Read also: America vs the World by Robert Kagan (The Atlantic, Jan. 18, 2026)
