Democracy and Tyranny

Posted on October 26, 2017 by bernardporter2013

‘Tyranny is probably established out of no other regime than democracy.’ So said Socrates, apparently. (It’s been decades since I read Plato’s Republic.) Here, one Andrew Sullivan explains how, with reference to Trump. I have to say this impressed me.

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Retired academic, author, historian.
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