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“Do you want to have defunded police or not? Do you want to have competent elections administration or not? Do you want to have an uncorrupt school board of your largest district or not? That’s really what the fights are about,” he said.

There were two key factors I underestimated back then — first, the difficulty of creating not just democracy, but also a modern, impartial, uncorrupt state; and second, the possibility of political decay in advanced democracies.

He is so uncorrupt that when his son joined the army, he refused to use his own position to help the boy in any way — a level of personal integrity that some of his colleagues saw as unnatural.

When Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat, from 2001 to 2014 — admired as a successful, pro-business and uncorrupt politician — Hindu mobs under his watch in Godhra massacred nearly 2,000 Muslims over several days in 2002.

The hope was that China might evolve, if not into a Western or Japanese democracy, perhaps into a state on the Singapore model of relatively tolerant and uncorrupt one-party rule.