> You can make everything about democracy, but that says more about you. Why wouldn't you? Democracy is the only thing that pulled at least some of us out of t

> You can make everything about democracy, but that says more about you. Why wouldn't you? Democracy is the only thing that pulled at least some of us out of terrifying cycles of tyranny, rebellion, and war. > Putin and Xi, for example, are not motivated by destroying democracy, that’s just a byproduct of what they actually want (imperial ambitions). Putin's and Xi's original ambitions were destroying democracy. Now that they're dictators, their ambitions have grown. You make it sound like they don't have anything against democracy, which is ludicrous.