Watch out — the democracy defenders are at it again.

Twenty years ago, the Cheneys, the Bushes, Nancy Pelosi, James Clapper, Tom Friedman, Anne Applebaum, Jeffrey Goldberg, and an army of other politicians, commentators, and bureaucrats deputized themselves as the defenders of democracy itself. Defending democracy back then meant launching a disastrous preemptive regime change war.

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