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Professor, author of "Our Own Worst Enemy." Curmudgeon. Cat guy. Democracy enthusiast. Board of Contributors, @USAToday, Contributing Writer, @TheAtlantic.

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    Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom Sep 19

    Tom Nichols Retweeted Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

    I’ve made calls over the course of my career where I’ve been right and wrong, and nothing is worse than having been wrong about the future of democracy in Russia.https://twitter.com/RFERL/status/1439713397789052941 …

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    Russia's parliamentary elections have ended with victory for the ruling United Russia party amid allegations of irregularities. Videos showed what appeared to be ballot stuffing, and opposition parties alleged other violations in an election tainted by a crackdown on dissent. pic.twitter.com/lZCNQ8grgQ
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      1. AltAlexanderHamilton‏ @AltAlexanderHam Sep 19
        Replying to @RadioFreeTom

        No way the US right doesn’t use this as fodder, right?

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      1. Julian Domain‏ @DomainJulian Sep 19
        Replying to @RadioFreeTom

        How Soviet.

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      2. William Linde‏ @WELinde Sep 19
        Replying to @RadioFreeTom

        Looking forward to these videos being relabeled "Maricopa County"

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      3. Max NBilly‏ @NbillyMax Sep 19
        Replying to @WELinde @RadioFreeTom

        Maricopa County voter here ✋. PLEASE don’t give these people ideas. We are appalled at what is happening here and have no way of stopping it.

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      1. LogJammin'‏ @KarlHunggus Sep 19
        Replying to @RadioFreeTom

        This a preview of 2022 in GOP controlled states

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      1. Catpain Blackudder‏ @Captaintweets77 Sep 19
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        I'm guessing you were optimistic?

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      1. The Silver Symposium‏ @SymposiumSilver Sep 19
        Replying to @RadioFreeTom

        Wrong as in, it existed at all, or wrong as in you thought it would become more democratic? Because it seems like Russia is the same as it always has been, a nation remade in the image of whoever rules it.

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      1. Real Wings Have Bones‏ @RealWingsBones Sep 19
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        What did you think of Fukuyama’s “The End Of History” book at the time?

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      1. Knockoff Freedom Phone Account‏ @smullins3000 Sep 19
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        A victory of hope over experience?

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      2. Matt Winfough  🇺🇸 💉‏ @MattWinfough Sep 19
        Replying to @RadioFreeTom

        I imagine a lot of people in the West were wrong about democracy taking hold in Russia. My guess is everyone assumed that a people who had existed under so many years of oppression would immediately take to liberal democracy, but this might have just been post-Cold War optimism.

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      3. Don Carlos Toledo‏ @DonCarlosToledo Sep 19
        Replying to @MattWinfough @RadioFreeTom

        I suspect we couldve handled it better, or assisted in a more constructive fashion. Part of the (obvs) problem was that there's no blueprint for taking a wholesale collectivized economy and fairly figuring out who gets what, so unfortunately they got a kleptocratic free for all.

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