The Semantic Challenges of Defending Democracy Today
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While democracy surely continues to have its haters, in the modern world its most powerful enemies have often claimed to love it. Jair Bolsonaro, Narendra Modi, Viktor Orban, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Donald Trump himself—each in their own way loves “democracy” so much that they are committed to using the power of the state to silence, marginalize, or eliminate those individuals and groups who stand in the way of their anti-liberal visions of “national greatness” and “popular sovereignty.”
The Semantic Challenges of Defending Democracy Today
The Semantic Challenges of Defending…
The Semantic Challenges of Defending Democracy Today
While democracy surely continues to have its haters, in the modern world its most powerful enemies have often claimed to love it. Jair Bolsonaro, Narendra Modi, Viktor Orban, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Donald Trump himself—each in their own way loves “democracy” so much that they are committed to using the power of the state to silence, marginalize, or eliminate those individuals and groups who stand in the way of their anti-liberal visions of “national greatness” and “popular sovereignty.”