To be or not to be (a democracy)

The new divide - in France, the US and elsewhere - pits supporters of liberal democracy against those who might want elections but not the other stuff

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The human experience whips up passionate opinions on so many issues that it can be frustrating to face a binary choice, as democracies often do. But binary does not have to mean ossified. The complexity can spark shifts as once-secondary issues gain importance, yielding new choices, usually also binary. We face a big …