“The Country Is Teetering”: What the Midterms Could Mean for America

James Clyburn had just finished his fifth campaign event of the day. The South Carolina Democrat, the third-ranking member of his party’s House leadership, was in North Carolina to stump for several candidates, and at each stop Clyburn talked about a range of important kitchen-table issues. But his strongest message was about what he sees as the highest stakes of the upcoming midterms: a constitutional crisis. “This democracy that we have been trying to fulfill since the birth of the country is up for grabs,” Clyburn tells me. “The country is teetering on edge. People say the insurrection failed—no. We… Read Full Article