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Anne Applebaum: The subtler ways democracy can fail

If independent legal institutions are deprived of resources and understaffed, if journalists who report on crimes are ignored, if the public is indifferent - these, too, are sure paths toward democratic failure.

FILE -- This April 4, 2016 file photo shows Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was killed by a car bomb in Malta on Oct. 16. On Monday, Dec. 4, 2017 Malta's prime minister Joseph Muscat announced the arrest of eight suspects, all Maltese citizens, in the murder of the journalist. (AP Photo/Jon Borg, files)

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By Anne Applebaum | The Washington Post