Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He and Ashir Jumruzic had an interesting conversation about our political system. We discussed everything from Egypt to the United States to Israel, we try to figure out our views on this.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Shadi Hamid discuss what happens when liberalism and democracy clash; whether countries with freely elected but highly illiberal governments can remain democratic; and why every consistent democrat has to embrace at least a minimal form of liberalism.