“Suppose the elections are free and fair and those elected are racists, fascists, separatists", said the American diplomat Richard Holbrooke about Yugoslavia in 1990s. "that is the dilemma”
Fareed Zakaria
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
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