Liberal democracy might already be dead | The Gray Area

Sean Illing talks with the philosopher John Gray, author of The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism.

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What exactly is the basis for democracy?

Arguably liberalism, the belief that the government serves the people, is the stone on which modern democracy was founded. That notion is so ingrained in the US that we often forget that America could be governed any other way.

But political philosopher John Gray believes that liberalism has been waning for a long, long time.

He joins Sean to discuss the great liberal thinker Thomas Hobbes and America's decades-long transition away from liberalism.

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