You don’t have to admire Winston Churchill, or his hypocrisy over who deserved this form of government, to embrace the essential truth of his observation about democracy. “Many forms of government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe,” Sir Winston said in a speech in the British Commons 79 years ago this month. “No one pretends that democracy is all-wise. “Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all other forms that have been tried from time to time.”