Coronavirus crisis exercises democracy’s flabby muscles

Published April 1, 2020 9:00am ET



According to some, it would be better to live under a dictatorship than in a democracy when it comes to the COVID-19 crisis. Authoritarian governments, they say, can better command their systems and order their people into compliance than a democracy.

Not so fast.

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