Too often in the West we suffer from dictator envy, feeling jealous and a bit afraid of the power and decisiveness of today’s autocracies such as Russia and China. This month should act as a corrective for such feelings, for it has been a terrible December for dictators. This does not mean that the liberal West has triumphed. But it does mean that our chances of competing with the autocrats are better than our melancholic form of self-flagellation has led us to believe.
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