Yes. I suspect you couldn't very well argue Germany in 1933 wasn't a democracy.https://twitter.com/CheshireOcelot/status/811429305628717056 …
@CheshireOcelot Looking at the graph, though, "liberal democracy" spikes just as WWII begins; so the contrast s.b. w/ Germany
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cf other terms that spike in the late '30s and peak in '41:pic.twitter.com/wlLeaOwVcD
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"liberal democracy" is just getting a (barely visible) contact high from the huge explosion in "democracy"pic.twitter.com/LNcOqLuXZo
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Late '30s FDR adopted/popularized the Croly/Dewey rebranding of progressivism as "liberalism".
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I think Dewey was already on that by 1926 or so
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Croly even earlier, but elite political intellectuals have a much smaller audience than FDR.
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Well, "madmen in authority" and all that ;)
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