This Is What It Feels Like to Live Through a Political Revolution

By Ivan Krastev and John Guida

Mr. Krastev is the chairman of the Center for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria, a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and a Financial Times contributing editor. Mr. Guida is an editor in Times Opinion.

What is it about American and global politics that feels so destabilizing right now? Perhaps this is what it feels like to live through revolutionary times.

That is what Ivan Krastev, a political theorist who lived through a post-Communist revolution in his home country, Bulgaria, has been thinking. He has........

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