Carlos Lozada: How to Strangle Democracy While Pretending to Engage in It - 20.10.2022

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Carlos Lozada: How to Strangle Democracy While Pretending to Engage in It (Oct. 20, 2022)➚

Artikel in der NYT

Albert O. Hirschman
The Rhetoric of Reaction
Milton Friedman
Sam Tanenhaus
Marshall Plan

He viewed democratic pluralism as a shaky bargain, based not on a consensus over shared values but on a recognition by competing sides that none could achieve political dominance. “Tolerance and acceptance of pluralism resulted eventually from a standoff between bitterly hostile opposing groups,” Hirschman wrote. Democracy is not what partisans prefer; it is what they settle for.