What Francis Fukuyama thinks about democracy
American political scientist, author of The End of History and the Last Man (1992) and the memoir In the Realm of the Last Man (2026); Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University. Writes the Frankly Fukuyama column at Persuasion.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Francis Fukuyama has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThere is today far more consensus on the democratic side of liberal democracy than there is on the liberal part.
↗The Beginning of the End of Historypersuasion.community 2nd of 3 in this piece