How do you feel watching it all happen in Hungary, US,
… Italy (we’ll see, depending on US backing), Venezuela, Turkey on the way too I guess and looming in UK/DE/FR. It’s spreading like a contagion in very different societies with different inequalities, safety nets, work cultures and subgroups…I blame the social media format for favouring illiberal ideas through the way it was engineered…
As we know from many credible reports, Russia directly supported the raise of populism and polarization of societies in many countries. There are Russian traces in Brexit, AfD raise, USA elections in 2016 and 2024, etc.
What I see currently in the USA reminds strongly of what happened in Russian politics across the last 3 decades, but squished into months, not even years.
So yeah, I’m worried. But I also hope that once Putin is gone, many authoritarian political forces would fold like a house of cards.
How do you feel watching it all happen in Hungary, US,
… Italy (we’ll see, depending on US backing), Venezuela, Turkey on the way too I guess and looming in UK/DE/FR. It’s spreading like a contagion in very different societies with different inequalities, safety nets, work cultures and subgroups…I blame the social media format for favouring illiberal ideas through the way it was engineered…
I feel badly, of course, and have 2 observations.
So yeah, I’m worried. But I also hope that once Putin is gone, many authoritarian political forces would fold like a house of cards.