Yes. I suspect you couldn't very well argue Germany in 1933 wasn't a democracy.https://twitter.com/CheshireOcelot/status/811429305628717056 …
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@CheshireOcelot Looking at the graph, though, "liberal democracy" spikes just as WWII begins; so the contrast s.b. w/ Germany2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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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