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Rick MacArthur: "You Can't Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America"Rick MacArthur: "You Can't Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America"

Rick MacArthur: "You Can't Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America"

As the Democratic National Convention begins in Denver, we speak to Harper’s publisher Rick MacArthur on his new book You Can’t Be President. MacArthur says that the popular notion that any American can become president only reinforces the "destructive national delusion that widespread, up-from-the-ground, truly popular democracy, both political and economic, really exists in America." To assume that, he says, is equal to believing that Santa Claus exists. [includes rush transcript]

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