The danger is that we engage in the wrong argument: we say "we must defend democracy", & the other side thinks "yes we must - against unelected lawyers, civil servants, losing parties & obstructive parliaments". We need to persuade people that those things are good for democracy, not obstacles to it

‘Plutocratic feudalism’ is a brilliant term. Good future book title for someone?!

…where the sitting president is the oldest living president, that is.

…and in the background the former GDR State Council Building incorporating the balcony from which Karl Liebnecht and Rosa Luxemburg declared a socialist republic on 9 Nov 1918.

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