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There’s a book I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. It’s by Daniel Ziblatt, who’s a Harvard political scientist, and it’s called “Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy.” And what he shows in that book is that democracies live or die based on how responsible their conservative parties are. [MUSIC PLAYING] In particular, the question is whether the center right quarantines the anti-democratic far right, in which case democracies tend to live and thrive, or it allies with them, in which case, the far right often takes over and democracies often fall. We are in that kind of moment right now. There is a rising far right that has become explicitly, dangerously anti-democratic. It will not be stopped by the Democratic Party because it does not care what the Democratic Party thinks, and it does not rely on the Democratic Party’s voters for its support. It will not be stopped by the mainstrea
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I have read up a few news reports and commentaries on the Hohoe post-election challenge to the seismic victory of Mr. John Peter Amewu, the current Akufo-Addo-appointed Energy Minister, whose legitimate right to represent the people of the Hohoe Constituency, in the Volta Region, where he was born and brought up, is being fiercely challenged in court by some crusading fanatics in the pay of the country’s main opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC). And here, it is significant to note that Mr. Amewu is a former bona fide member and local operative of the National Democratic Congress who crossed over to the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the present ruling party and government, quite a while back.