[sievebrain]

Not a big fan of vox but this is a nice article, such reminders are always welcome. It is however unfortunate that the journalist feels a need to start with the usual silly bashfest - democracy is dying you see, except for this graph in our own article that shows democracies have never been more common. I realise this journalist is distinguishing between "democracy" and "liberal democracy" but for an article filled with graphs you'd think they could show some data to back up the point.

[cabaalis]

It's kind of a form of virtue signaling (edit: or at least tribalism.) Like saying: "I'm about to say good things about the state of the world, that don't jive with your current feelings about things. I know, I know, we're on the same team, and none of what I'm about to say is at all attributable to that awful politician we all hate."