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What Old Books Still Teach My Students: Why Democracies Rarely Change All at Once

"We are only at the beginning…”

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Jun 20, 2026
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by Brandon Burley and The Redemption Project

One line from a 1941 book has stayed with me this week:

“We are only at the beginning…”

The line comes from The Redemption of Democracy by Hermann Rauschning, written during a time when democracy itself felt uncertain across much of the world.

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