Tocqueville on Democracy
Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS
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The Central Paradox of American Democracy
In American democracy things keep going wrong but things keep changing fast enough that it doesn't matter so much. For tokfield was the glory of American democracy and the risk the risk being that people did not take their mistakes seriously enough. When an election is coming it feels like the river of American democracy is about to burst its banks, he says.
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