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All people are created equal?
“We’ve never fully lived up to that idea, but we’ve never walked away from it either,” Joe Biden said in his State of the Union.
This sentence is worth unpacking, as it hints at a shift in the liberal imagination of democracy’s past and present.
New piece:
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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/what-does-defend-democracy-actually