Do We Get the Government We Deserve?

Tunisia's democratic decline, and ours.

So it happened. The first and last “bright spot” of the Arab Spring is no longer. When speaking of Tunisian democracy, one can now speak in the past tense. I’ve written about this elsewhere, so rather than belaboring obvious points, I want to try to understand the Tunisian case in a broader context, because what happened last week—the promulgation of a …