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5. What Does “Democracy” Even Mean, And Why Conservatives Don’t Want to Be Conservatives Anymore (Oh, and the meeting of white supremacists at Mar-a-Lago)

Is This Democracy

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What's the Ideal of a Democracy?

A lot of the equality that we have right now happened pretty darn recently. It's like it wasn't until 1976 that women could get a credit card without the approval of their husband. These are movements that are new, that are uncomfortable for people who are accustomed to a certain traditional social order. This is not something that I'm sitting here in 2022 and saying, oh, that was not a democracy.

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