Two pandemics are sweeping the planet, and so far nobody has found a cure for either. There鈥檚 Covid-19 and there鈥檚 a global democracy blight causing political life in many countries to become more polarized and less democratic.
Unlike Covid, the democracy dysfunction has been building for some time. In a depressingly large number of countries, both identity politics and ideological competition have become more polarized even as the strength of democratic institutions has declined.
Echoing鈥攗nconsciously for the most part鈥攃riticisms both fascist and communist intellectuals made of classical liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s, many voices on the left and the right blame the democratic recession on the consequences of what they call the 鈥渘eoliberal鈥� policies widely adopted after the end of the Cold War.
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