How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Democracy

Maybe we shouldn’t fret so much about the end.

I’m not sure when it is that I first caught myself saying that “legitimacy is defined as that which you can get away with.” I’m pretty sure I didn’t coin the phrase, but cursory Googling is not kicking up any results. It’s a phrase that tacitly underlies a lot of what I write, including my most recent rejoinder to Shadi. But before you write me off as s…