text:  Many, many of the democratic breakdowns that we've seen in the world, the most traumatic democratic breakdowns, Germany in the 30s, Italy in the 20s, South America in the 1960s and 70s. In all of those cases, you had rising levels of political violence, paramilitary groups, assassination attempts, terrorist attacks, street violence. All of that was picking up. And in all of those cases, you find mainstream politicians kind of winking at it, downplaying it.