Department of unintentional irony

"Alexis de Tocqueville, France’s 19th-century observer of the United States, the modern world’s first democratic experiment, warned that democracy ultimately could lead to the tyranny of the majority. However, nearly two centuries later, democracy and the concept of majority rule have become powerful notions for which every nation on earth strives -- at least in word if not deed." (Emphasis mine.)

The first paragraph of a release from the US Department of State's International (Mis)Information Programs.