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Jan-Werner Müller is a professor of politics at Princeton University. His most recent book is Democracy Rules.
Basic norms exist for political parties; Republicans don’t meet them.
Some candidates who lose elections strengthen democracy, but others threaten the democratic system itself.
Trump shows us that populism is not the same as legitimate protest—or democracy.
The history of Christian Democracy provides reasons for optimism and lessons for the future in Turkey.
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