White House special counsel Robert Mueller recently issued 12 indictments alleging that Russian intelligence agents sought to tilt the vote in Donald Trump’s favor by hacking prominent Democrats during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The Trump-Russia investigation has exposed flaws in the American democratic system — so much so that, according to many pundits, people now doubt not only the legitimacy of the Trump administration, but also the very foundations of the country’s political institutions. According to a July 2018 Brown University opinion poll, only 16 percent of Americans truly believe their vote matters.

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