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Best of: The necessity — and danger — of free speech

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Democratic Party Is Not Dedicated to Liberal Democracy

Margaret Hoover: I see democracy largely as a competition of communication styles where every imaginable kind of rhetoric and bullshit artistry and demagoguery is allowed to flourish. She says the failure to see this distinction is making it more difficult for us to defend liberal democracy that we have. Hoover: The Republicans are not devoted to liberal democracy, they're actually willing to play dice with the democracy that we've got.

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