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AFA weekly: Is democracy normal … ?
When countries in Eastern Europe broke from the Soviet bloc thirty years ago, their next step seemed obvious: they began turning into Western-looking liberal democracies.
Back then, this shift seemed inevitable.
“What everybody said they wanted in 1989 was ‘we want to be normal’,” the journalist Anne Appelbaum noted recently. “And ‘normal’ meant Western-style European democracy.”
Today, liberal democracy no longer appears to be the default condition to which all nations aspire …
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Jonathan Pearlman, AFA Weekly