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When Is Democracy Undemocratic? (with Emily B. Finley)

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The American Messianic Mission of Democracy

The idea that the people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard. It comes back to the Rousseauian idea of the general will. We imagined that there was this general will for democracy in the Middle East. And so we were going to go over there and give it to them one way or another by force at gunpoint.

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