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Their wordsThe liberal state was legitimate and stable not necessarily because it distributed material rewards equally, but because it provided equal recognition and thus satisfied the thymotic side of human striving.
Their wordsThere is today far more consensus on the democratic side of liberal democracy than there is on the liberal part.
Their wordsMuch of the democratic backsliding we’ve seen over the past decade has in fact been driven by groups claiming to represent “the people,” whose democratic legitimacy gives them the right to dismantle the constraints imposed by liberal restrictions on state power.
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