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Know what? Most Advances of Civilization Came from The ‘Elites’

Know what? Most Advances of Civilization Came from The ‘Elites’

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May 04, 2025
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By Mihai Razvan Ungureanu and Dan Perry

Romania, which is today holding a rerun of its presidential election, is the improbable ground zero of a new-old global struggle: the populist war against the so-called “elites” and their quaint ideas about fact-based reality, liberal democracy and the values of the Enlightenment.

How did Romania get here? Well, a f…

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