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234 | Yascha Mounk: Can Diverse and Divided Democracies Survive?

The Realignment

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Democracy Makes It Harder for Diverse Societies to Succeed

In a democracy you immediately get those demographic fears, which we're seeing so strongly in our politics to day. If your group suddenlys becoming bigger than mine, but perhaps you're on to win be election rather than me, and so that becomes threatening in a completely different way. So ther's at least one element of democracy which makes it harder to sustain diverse democracies. In u guslavia and lots of other places, You've often had diverse societies held together by autocracy, but then explode once you try to make o transition to to democracy.

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