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Timothy D. Snyder on Democracy

born 1969 United States

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Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism in the twentieth century.

On Tyranny (2017)

Democracy is a procedure to change rulers. To qualify democracy with an adjective–"people's democracy" during communism, "sovereign democracy" thereafter–means eliminating that procedure.

Since the American colonies declared their independence... [m]any... democracies... failed, in circumstances that in some important respects resemble our own.

On Tyranny (2017)

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