If people don't respect democratic outcomes, then obviously that raises the tension considerably, it can lead to a collapse of order of legitimacy for the American nation and our elected government.

Shadi Hamid

Shadi Hamid (born 1983) is an American author and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is also a contributing writer at The Atlantic as well as research professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Seminary. This appointment is the first time a Muslim scholar has been hired in the school's history. He has been called a "prominent thinker on religion and politics" in the New York Times and was named as one of "The world's top 50 thinkers" in 2019 by Prospect Magazine. He is known for coining the phrase "Islamic exceptionalism" to describe Islam's resistance to secularization and outsized role in public life, but it has come under some criticism.

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