Democracy can be ended and restored with the same tools

Evidence

Religious nationalists are using the tools of democratic political culture to end democracy. I continue to believe those same resources can be used to restore it. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 1075

Categorization

• APHORISMS: A resonant closing observation that the very democratic mechanisms a movement exploits remain the available cure.
• XREF: connects to: Christian nationalist political theory centers monarchy, not democracy — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 211; Conspicuous adherence to democratic process can re-legitimate government — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 44; Democracy can survive structurally while losing its animating meaning. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 381 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Conspicuous adherence to democratic process can re-legitimate government #expands (0.82) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 44
• Democracy can survive structurally while losing its animating meaning. #expands (0.80) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 381
• Leaving old elites alone can reinforce new democracies #expands (0.78) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 1513
• Multi-party democratization can proceed peacefully when ruling elites accept defeat and step aside #exemplifies (0.72) — Johan Brosché and Hanne Fjelde and Kristine Höglund, Electoral violence and the legacy of…, 66