While the Ronald Reagan appointee did not specifically blame Trump, a key architect of the Constitutional Court of South Africa under Nelson Mandela did.

Apparently to circumvent Aristotle’s fears of a fusion of tyranny and democracy, Western proponents of the concept of democracy built into it the concept of opposition politics.

Where democracy is meant — in definition, if not always in practice — to be a system of majority rule, an oligarchy is ruled by the elite few. It’s a term that was coined by Aristotle in his ...