Liberal democracy, in danger of extinction

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Liberal democracy, in danger of extinction

Does the reader remember that political scientist so exalted in his day throughout the West for his essay entitled “The End of History and the Last Man”? The American Francis Fukuyama argued in him that liberal democracy would end up spreading around the planet: all countries would end up surrendering to it, convinced of their superiority over any system of government of the past. Contagioned with that same optimism, the journalist of The New Yo…