
In defence of Democracy
The David McWilliams Podcast
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The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
I think on the anniversary of an invasion of Ukraine, which actually pits two ideological ideas against each other. One is for all its faults and Ukraine has many faults. It is a vibrant democratic country. Evidence most clearly by the fact they actually elected a comedian. That shows you that shows you that this is a democracy, right? Against a dictator, a man who the Russian constitution said could only serve twice as presidents of the constitution. He broke that. He served as prime minister. He came back as a life president. So there are two ideologies here. For all its words, the Ukrainian stroke European idea of liberalism and democracy and the Russian idea of Putinism. And I don't think
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