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Tunisia would seem to have everything going for it. Average salaries are the third-highest in all of Africa’s fifty countries, just behind Morocco and South Africa. Literacy is 97% among the under-30s, population growth is only 1% a year, and it’s a democracy that functions under the rule of law. Or rather, it was. The results of Monday’s referendum are in, and the proposal to give dictatorial powers to Tunisia’s usurper president, Kais Saied, got a 94.7% “yes” vote. It’s true that only one-third of those entitled to vote actually did so, and that most of the opposition parties called for a bo…