Americans often imagine Germany as the model liberal democracy: institutional, consensus-oriented, post-national, and morally disciplined by the catastrophes of the twentieth century. Yet Germany also offers a warning—and perhaps a fruitful lesson—for the United States. Modern democracies increasingly preserve the appearance of electoral competition while building vast state-supported ideological infrastructures that quietly entrench the political establishment and marginalize populist opposition.
In Germany, this process is simply more visible than it is in America.
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