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At some point shortly after the end of the Second World War, democracy reached its apex in countries such as Britain and the US.

Before the civil rights movement, before feminism, before Stonewall, we had  the golden age of Democracy in the West – the opinion you’d expect from some rodentistic right wing fabricator  like Nial Ferguson or Victor David Hanson, but the quote is from a perfectly nice, smart, educated left-liberal named Henry Farrell.