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“I do believe that what I have called populist democracy is to be preferred to what I have called elitist democracy.”

Quote by Torbjorn Tannsjo

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Torbjorn Tannsjo

Torbjorn Tannsjo, born in 1946, is an individual whose profession and category are unknown. more

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