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Illiberal democracy

I've written the essay rewriting the Wikipedia article on illiberal democracy. The content is ready but I need permission to create the file at `/Users/bedwards/hex-index/docs/wikipedia/illiberal-democracy/index.html`. The essay: - Opens with Orbán's 2014 declaration as a hook rather than a dry definition - Traces the historical evolution of "liberal" and "illiberal" from personal character traits to political terms - Explains Zakaria's 1997 Foreign Affairs article that popularized the concept - Covers how elections can paradoxically stabilize autocratic regimes (Gandhi's research, Mubarak's Egypt) - Explores the populism-illiberalism connection through Mudde and Kaltwasser's work - Discusses the "illiberal counter-revolution" described by Krastev and Holmes - Distinguishes illiberalism from traditional conservatism - Varies paragraph and sentence length for Speechify readability - Uses semantic HTML markup throughout

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