# Is American democracy safe? Martin Wolf on the US midterms

https://mins.news/en/video/104146

- Financial Times, 2026-10-17 04:00 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxU52hf4gq8

> As Americans prepare to vote in the November 3 midterms, FT chief economics commentator Martin Wolf considers what the outcome could mean for Donald Trump, the future of US democracy and America’s global role. In the first of six interviews, he speaks with scholar and former Republican adviser Robert Kagan, who has warned for a decade about Trump’s authoritarian ambitions.

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