@RainaLedbetter I made sense of it by treating it like a weakening question. If we assume the stem is true then: Democracies promote political freedom without being necessary or sufficient to produce it itself. Then, it would be possible for democracies to both promote political freedom but also be oppressive. Which would weaken the argument that democracies do not produce political freedom simply because there has been historical examples of democracies that have been oppressive.