Given the stakes and high pitched tone of politics for the last five years, and the pandemic, I know many Americans are tired of the relentless drumbeat of political news and opinion.

I feel that way myself.

But it is in precisely circumstances like the present that the American constitutional order is in greatest danger.

I added my signature to those of many others who study democracies for a living to warn our fellow citizens of just how perilous our present condition is today.

Here is our Statement of Concern.