Bad manners, good democracy

Kiran Bedi and Om Puri types populate all liberal democracies. As they come with the territory, politicians are expected to suffer them and, if possible, outwit them. A well-behaved public and tea-party style journalists exist only in autocracies, dictatorships, and worse. When a democracy has its ducks forever in a row, it is time to get worried.

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