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Shadi Hamid on the Tensions Between Liberalism and Democracy

The Good Fight

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What Do We Do When Democracy Produces Bad Outcomes?

Liberal elites in Egypt were the vociferous supporters of the coup. They couldn't get past that existential tenor, he says. And so they made their choice to support a military coup against a democratically elected government. He asks: What do we do when democracy produces bad outcomes? How do we process that reality?

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