Approaching questions of dictatorship as either/or miss the capacity for provisional dictatorship written into every liberal democracy. The question is duration and willingness to revert.
Btw, loved your "Hayek's Bastards" (got a pre-publication copy in London). I have written a review but Penguin's asks me to wait until the book is out.
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I have written on the influence of Hayek in Chile (for a French review).
https://journals.openedition.org/teth/5126