One benefit of liberal democracy is that it's much more robust The normal trajectory is Louis i through xvi -> "Democracy" -> Napoleon. The kings that precede

One benefit of liberal democracy is that it's much more robust The normal trajectory is Louis i through xvi -> "Democracy" -> Napoleon. The kings that precede democracy are sometimes more stable that it itself... There are no large countries that are democracies that I'm aware of. If there were, they would get their Bonapartes or Bolsheviks as they always do.