When we “defend democracy”, this can mean two very different things: We can either defend the progression and development of these democratic ideals and their manifestation in society (which is good)—or we may be defending the current, increasingly outdated institutional form of modern “liberal democracy” from the metamodern currents of renewal and refinement. In the latter case, we may think of ourselves as heroic defenders of democracy, raging against the dying of the light, but we are in fact waging a war against the core values of democratic development because we mistake the current forms
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