Douglas Lute

Elections are the vital link between the American people and our government. We need to protect that link. What I worry about at night isn’t our external threats. It’s what’s going on here at home - the political divisions and the challenges to our democratic system and processes that connect voters to elected officials. I’ve spent 40 years watching the steady erosion of democracies around the world. And now we see some of those same signals in the weakening of our own democracy here at home. We’re at risk. Our democracy is fragile. And we’re too complacent about this. Democracy requires maintenance and we need to attend to it.