Do We Know What Kind of Democracy We're Looking For?

What coverage of South Africa's election tells us about our own broken politics

Today’s “Rewind” is a little different (and a day late, but I didn’t like the tone of my drafting yesterday; hopefully this version won’t be as cranky).

Usually, I pluck an aspect of history to help contextualize the present, and we’ll still get into some history here. But it felt more important this week to look suspiciously at our love of history in ge…