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It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.

Friedrich August von Hayek
Democracy, Majority, Degenerates
"The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek (p. 94), 1960.
It is when it is contended that in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.