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Our odd relationship with dictatorship

Our odd relationship with dictatorship

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Sam Mace
Jan 22, 2023
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The concept of dictatorship consumes us in the west

The concept of dictatorship holds a shadow over liberal democratic politics. As Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook have recently argued, Western Politics still lives in the shadow of the Third Reich. Unable to fully emerge from the most brutal, savage, and modern of historical contexts, western liberal …

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