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Last Checked Nov. 9, 2022

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And second, it leaves you blind to the reality that even imposing some form of this “minimalism” runs up against fierce opposition, precisely because commitment to democracy requires commitment to substantive ideas that directly undermine received hierarchies and ways of doing. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 3, 2022

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The problem then is twofold: First, to treat popular sovereignty etc. as “minimal” is to give short shrift to the titanic and world historical battles it took to establish those values in the first place. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 3, 2022

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And this…he goes on to say this does not mean we should respect a government that rounded up racial and religious minorities. But if we are saying “democratic decision making is bounded by a set of commitments to civic and political equality” then well that’s not minimalism! — PolitiTweet.org

Shadi Hamid @shadihamid

"Democratic minimalism" allows us to re-conceptualize democracy as a system and means of governing and rotating pow… https://t.co/f4R9ErfP10

Posted Nov. 3, 2022

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