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.