Preface vii
1. Fake Democracy: Everybody has their Reasons 3
But What is Right-Wing (or, for That Matter, Left-Wing) Populism Anyway?
An Art of Governance
The Will of the People
The Double Secession
A Hard Border
2. Real Democracy: Liberty, Equality, Uncertainty 42
President for a Day?
Representation or Democracy?
Democracy for Losers
Expect the Unexpected?
In Praise of "Demagogues"
Why Nor Replace Representation with Random Selection?
3. Critical Infrastructure 90
What Matters About Intermediary Institutions
Planning (and Paying for) Infrastructure
Expect the Expected?
Is the Party Really Over?
4. Reopening 139
Closing Democracy to Save Democracy?
If All Eke Fails? Democratic Disobedience
Coda: Five Reasons for Democratic Hope (Not Optimism) 179
Notes 187
Acknowledgments 223
Index 225