
The lure of progressive authoritarianism
The left needs to rediscover the virtue of liberty.
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Michael Bröning is a member of the Basic Values Commission of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) and director of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in New York.

The left needs to rediscover the virtue of liberty.

As Germany prepares for this month’s federal election, the country seems remarkably resistant to the populist challenge that other Western societies have faced. With the