Democrats must prevail in the existential contest against enemies who prefer a world in which power is concentrated and unchecked. Yet how best can we fight a war that rages on multiple fronts, against 3P adversaries adept at exploiting democracy’s weaknesses and tapping into popular frustrations and discontents that democracies have failed repeatedly to address? In this latter-day incarnation of President John F. Kennedy’s “long twilight struggle,” democracy’s defenders must choose their battles wisely to prevail.3
