Status Updates From Democracy: A Very Short Int...

“The populist mode of democracy is a politics of arousal more than of reason, but also a politics of diversion from serious concerns that need settling in either a liberal democratic or civic republican manner.”

“When the civil war broke out, conservative opinion all over Europe had said, ‘Told ya so.’ Democracy would result in anarchy. But the victory of the North, the emancipation of the slaves, economic strength of Northen industry, the patriotism of citizen armies, & the speeches of Lincoln gave them an answer: a democratic, capitalist society had triumphed over the agrarian cottonnocracy of plantation owners.”