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@evan One can quibble with Freedom House, but they're probably right on the trend. That said, nothing in human affairs moves monotonically forward. (Indeed, it's often better to understand phenomena in terms of cycles rather than of progress.)

It doesn't change the fact that most humans would prefer to live in a liberal democracy than some other sort of regime, and very few are even willing to say that liberal democracy is the wrong model for the state.