# Professor Jonathan Haidt shares his outlook on democracy in the United States

1 Faculty News July 20, 2019 ![The Australian logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030949.jpg?itok=04fsBqtC)>

Excerpt from [The Australian](https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/very-good-chance-democracy-is-doomed-in-america-says-haidt/news-story/0106ec1c458a0b5e3844545514a55b5a) -- "'I am now very pessimistic,' [Haidt](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt) said. 'I think there is a very good chance American democracy will fail, that in the next 30 years we will have a catastrophic failure of our democracy.'"

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