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Saving Democracy from Demagogues

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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How Did Kugo Chavez Consolidate Power?

Vladimir Putin is the current president of Russia. In his book, how democracies die, he describes a process by which elected leaders attack democratic institutions. The first thing that these kinds of figures have pursued is to capture the referees im this is like a sacker game. These figures are both an opportunity and a challenge when you say they capture, they get rid of the neutral referees and put in their own umpires.

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