If Western democracies became less liberal, there is no reason to think that they would magically become stern but efficient technocracies, as China or Singapore claim to be https://t.co/wL7dudHEEn ...

Take Serbia. It has all the trappings of a democracy. It does not lock up journalists for what they write. Yet in dozens of ways it makes their jobs and lives difficult, unless they support the government https://t.co/V9leU3nIkp ...

nobody hates actual democracy more than blobslop media that preens 24/7 about fake threats to democracy, here bloomberg praises france voter-proofing its gov’t so Macronyism can’t be voted out https://t.co/qCc9L5Vc06Bloomberg (@business):President Emmanuel Macron has been handed a golden chance to insulate one of France’s most important institutions from the far right https://t.co/h64yEwTlqZ ...

From @WSJFreeEx via @WSJOpinion: Survey the rhetoric of left-leaning politicians and you’ll notice a liberal employment of this phrase “our democracy,” writes @JackButler4815https://t.co/bfTvp7Y3ym ...

RT MUSKOSOPHY (@muskosophy)“If the president cannot get things implemented as a reflection of the will of the people, then what we have is not a democracy, but a bureaucracy.”– Elon Musk https://t.co/LQSSrmwtKB ...

More than three dozen former lawmakers of a pro-democracy party in Thailand face a lifetime ban from politics https://t.co/09RdfMSMUY ...

RT Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre)Democracy is a stupid form of government but it becomes suicidal once immigration increasesLaw ceases to matter because the law is written by people who hate you and want your stuffRule of law really means rule of cultural norms which cease to exist under multiculturalism ...

Since the turn of the century, election night has usually been great for pro-democracy reformers and miserable for Thailand’s royalists. Now the establishment has finally backed a winner, and the country may see some stability as a result. https://t.co/DjFgutJ4AA ...

LAST NIGHT, WILL LEWIS, The embattled CEO and publisher of the Washington Post stepped down just three days after the paper laid off a third of its staff and eliminated or gutted several areas of coverage. Will Lewis will be replaced by the current CFO, Jeff D HE WAS SPOTTED THE NEXT DAY, BY THE WAY, AFTER AN NFL RED CARPET EVENT IN SAN FRANCISCO. Lewis's farewell letter was just four sentences long, but it was noteworthy.In it, he thanked the paper's billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, but made absolutely no me ...

Thailand’s next leader is set to emerge as polls closed in Sunday's election. The contest between pro-democracy reformers and status-quo conservatives risks deepening the country’s political paralysis. https://t.co/wKWZRZ6ZtB ...