Well, this just gets more and more incomprehensible. On the one hand we have a group of students, who, like the rest of the world, equate democracy with universal suffrage and elected governments.
On the other hand we have JC Wilcox and Edward Duhigg supporting a military coup, justifying the denial of basic human rights and saying the students need education on the subject of democracy. I think it is obvious who needs the education, and it isn't the students.
If Edward Duhigg believes in democracy that is not one-party rule by a leader who brooks no opposition, what on earth is he doing "vehemently" (his word) supporting the junta? He seems to be saying that democracy is all very well as long as it produces results that suit him, but, if it doesn't, then he prefers a dictatorship and will lecture those fighting for democracy.
I am a bit puzzled, too, by his use of the swastika as a test for understanding history and democracy. I can assure him that he can easily find many young people throughout the West who don't have a clue about what it stood for. This is shameful, but it's partly an educational and partly a generational issue. However, the fact that he understands its significance hasn't helped him to distinguish between democracy and dictatorship.
Keith Barlow