After almost five decades, Dan Balz retires The Washington Postwhere he covered 12 elections and eight presidencies as a political correspondent. On Washington week with the AtlanticJeffrey Goldberg questions Balz about the state of American democracy today, and how he saw the landscape of politics change.
“During 50 years that I do this, I think that the most important change,” said Balz last night, is that “politics became more difficult, rough and more nasty.” There is always a “flow and flow” in politics, he continued. But confidence in the government “fell from the cliff during Vietnam and Watergate, and it has been essentially broken since”.
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