A Trumpian blip or a fundamental flaw in American democracy Shalini Randeria Timothy Snyder   Just as democracy has become more widely recognized across the globe, the contemporary political norm is under threat from those in the West no longer abiding by its rules. Shalini Randeria and Timothy Snyder discuss the US’s tumultuous situation still reflected by a divided electorate. The following edited conversation between professor Shalini Randeria and historian Timothy Snyder, Levin Professor at Yale and permanent fellow of the Institute for Human Science (IWM), was first published on 8 October 2020 as the first episode of the IWM’s podcast series, Democracy in question? In Randeria’s words, the series: … comes at a time when the liberal democratic order