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A political party wins power and then systematically erects barriers to popular accountability such that it can no longer be removed from power, no matter what the voters want. This, I’d say, is a bad outcome and should be prevented. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 8, 2022

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Democracy is the institutional form for self-government and popular sovereignty. If an election outcome degrades the ability of the people to govern themselves, then it is actually pretty easy to say it is bad. — PolitiTweet.org

As time passes, I feel increasingly uncomfortable making judgments about what constitutes a good or bad democratic… https://t.co/1LCg8GSITC

Posted Nov. 8, 2022

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You can see in Hamid’s thread the extent to which he is unable to think beyond his own narrow definitions. He is stuck on the idea that democracy is nothing more than a set of procedures, and cannot (or will not) grok the idea that it entails larger commitments. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 8, 2022