Etiqueta: iliberalism
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The US Culture War against Europe
“I hate to say that I told you so, but I told you so.” It may seem self-serving to appeal to one’s own foresight, but in the face of facts, it becomes inevitable. Since 2018, I have been focusing on the so-called “culture wars”, a phenomenon rooted in the clash between so-called “conservatives” and “progressives” around…
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Lightning in a Clear Sky: Bolsonarism in Brazilian Political Thought
Although Bolsonarism presents itself as a legitimate expression of Brazilian national political aspiration — frequently wrapped in patriotic rhetoric and appeals to tradition — a deeper investigation into its ideological foundations reveals a troubling absence of organic continuity with any established political current within Brazil’s historical development. Unlike other movements that emerged as outgrowths of…
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Are There Lessons for Democracy in Budapest’s Pride March?
The path Viktor Orbán took from liberal democracy to democratic illiberalism was neither abrupt nor improvised. It was a cold and calculated march—along the ground cleared by the political merits of populism and the rising tide of illiberal values that Orbán anticipated and, by embracing, helped consolidate. Broadly and clearly, democratic illiberalism rests on a…
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It’s time for Burka: radical right is creating a ‘political fact’ in Portugal
Law often lags behind reality. This is a well-known maxim in legal theory: laws emerge, for better or worse, as responses to new and evolving social challenges. Politics, too, is meant to offer such responses—through negotiation among competing forces in search of what has been called “common ground.” However, the rise of populist and demagogic…
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Trump: Impeachment or the Illiberal Impossibility of Toppling Narcissus
After the forced invocation of the concept of “rebellion” to deploy troops to parts of California—politicizing a legal mechanism (Title 10; Section 12406 of the U.S. Code) for symbolic purposes, as a display of personal strength and a statement on the alleged “incompetence” of California Governor Gavin Newsom—in a dual maneuver of federal intimidation and…
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