“Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all societies eventually will.”

— Anne Applebaum

A Warning From Europe: The Worst is Yet to Come https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/poland-polarization/568324/ (October 2018), The Atlantic.

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