(Wall Street Journal) Bret Stephens - The limited experience of democracy in the Arab world (and in Turkey) is that it's a handy vehicle for Islamist parties with illiberal ideas and unscrupulous methods to gain and keep power. Whether democracy tames and tempers those parties over time - or they tame, temper and ultimately destroy democracy - remains an open question.
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