Democracy has fanatical enemies but only lukewarm defenders.

Evidence

What Sartre said about the Jews was true of democracy: it had fanatical enemies and lukewarm defenders'. At the very moment when he reaches the summits of legal society,’ Sartre wrote in the third part of Réflexions sur la Question juive, dealing with the psychology of the Jew, another societyamorphous, diffused, and omnipresentappears before him as if in brief flashes of lightning and refuses to take him in.' 66 And this other society was in fact almost omnipresent. It was part of what Adorno called the cultural climate’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 442

Categorization

• DEFINE: Adorno’s ‘cultural climate’ names the ambient, diffuse prejudice that coexists with official democratic norms.
• XREF: connects to: Dictators only threaten democracy once multitudes elevate them; The crisis of democracy grabbed defenders only after measurable warning signs accumulated — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 366; Authoritarians of opposing ideologies unite against democracy. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 4283 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Dictators only threaten democracy once multitudes elevate them; The crisis of democracy grabbed defenders only after measurable warning signs accumulated — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 366; Authoritarians of opposing ideologies unite against democracy. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 4283 (+4 more)