Democracy is in a worldwide slump. So is peace — both the international and the domestic sort. There are lots of reasons. What’s the biggest?
Many pundits blame various kinds of polarization: Left against right, elitist versus populist, blue against red, educated or rich against uneducated or poor, nativist versus cosmopolitan, Sino-Russian autocratic against “Western” democratic and so forth.
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