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Coronavirus crisis exercises democracy’s flabby muscles

By David Davenport

Published April 1, 2020 9:00am ET

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Coronavirus crisis exercises democracy’s flabby muscles — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, beside Rear Adm. John B. Mustin, welcomes the the arrival of the USNS Comfort, a naval hospital ship with a 1,000 bed-capacity, sent by President Trump to aid in the state's virus response.

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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