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Michael Ignatieff on How To Stay True to Liberal Values in Politics

The Good Fight

CHAPTER

Are You the Enemies of Democracy?

How do you deal with somebody who is attacking democratic institutions in that way? It's a huge dilemma for a democrat, how to deal with the politics of enemies. And this is a problem if i can shift from the united states to a context i know better,. This is the dilemma faced by the hungarian opposition. They are facing a regime that's been in power for 12 years and has run it as a single party state. How do we reverse a decade of single party rule? It's extremely, extremely difficult. I'm urging caution, because i think what you want to avoid is giving a defeated right wing the opportunity to go in the streets and try and settlePolitics on the streets

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