Quote of the Week

“Democracy dies in darkness, opines a great American newspaper, but it would be more accurate to say that it dies by degrees. When constitutional democracy has been lost, it has been lost because political actors have broken its rules turn by turn to achieve some immediately urgent goal. Each rule breaking then justifies the next, in a cycle of revenge that ends only in the formal or informal abrogation of the constitutional order.”

David Frum

‘Trumpocracy’

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