Garvan Walshe: Romania disqualified pro-Kremlin Georgescu. We should all learn from its defence of democracy | Conservative Home

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Its decision raises one of the most fraught questions in the running of democratic processes: what do democracies do about anti-democratic politicians - the people who would use democratic freedoms to destroy the system that allowed them to seize power?
61% : The more successful examples of anti-extremist legislation of the time, for example in Czechoslovakia, banned these practices.
48% : The Czechoslovak example comes from the work of Karl Löwenstein, a German political scientist exiled to the United States after the Nazis seized power, who, writing in 1937, gave the Czechoslovak policy as an example of "militant democracy", able to set aside ordinary political practice to overcome extremists.
28% : There is no doubt that Georgescu, like Donald Trump, exploits social resentment in his campaigning; but also like Turmp, he possesses personal charisma, albeit of a more conventional kind than Trump himself.

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