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Democracy--Our Word, Not Theirs

Democracy--Our Word, Not Theirs

Victor Davis Hanson, “Populist-Conservatism,” the “Democracy-Rescue Coalition,” and Conservative Hesitancy to Embrace the D-word

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Dec 21, 2021
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Paint it on our banner, let our heralds shout it clear:

Democracy!

Just a little word, you say?  A troublesome term we should regard as an “essentially contested concept”1 since it is used in so many different ways? 

Nay, my friends, it is a word of life!  A word worth fighting for!

I cannot but imagine that every time it is printed on the masthead of The Wa…

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