Well, I already tried to give the answer to that when I referred to the declaration of principles. The Atlantic Council and Canada's CIGI decided that bemoaning the state of democratic deterioration in Europe, in the United States and around the world simply was a hand-wringing and ineffective exercise.
Our thought is that we need to decide what we stand for and rally forces, the better to push back against these trends. We need to decide how to push back against the authoritarian trends. We think that we could best do that by defining who we are, by extolling the virtues of the democratic order and by honestly evaluating the problems that have brought us to this point.
I also don't think that simply describing the democratic sag as a problem in central Europe or in the former communist countries post-1989 Europe is going to do. I think that what is happening in Poland and Hungary is simply their version of what is happening throughout Europe and, indeed, in the United States.