The democracy boosters.

From: National Review | Date: March 24, 1989| Author: | Copyright information

Democracy, said Churchill is the worst form of governmentexcept for all the others. It is also the most demanding, requiring traditions, prudence, and the civic virtues. But some conservatives consider it an easy cure-all at home and abroad Call them:

WHOM THE GODS would destroy they first make mad." One is reminded of this ancient saying by the flow of writing and rhetoric that today proclaims democracy as the salvation of the world. What brings the proverb to mind is the self-satisfied, utopian, and often quasi-religious manner in which a certain form of government is ...

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