A political system doesn’t shed its skin and emerge as something new when it flips from “democracy” to “autocracy,” from “left” to “right,” or from “inside” to “outside.” It shifts phase into another register of the same underlying forces—self-interests, fears, incentives, and ambitions. At the core of this self-interest is an essentially empty and insubstantial, […]
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