US Republicans are starting to look a lot like authoritarian parties in Hungary and Turkey,

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US Republicans are starting to look a lot like authoritarian parties in Hungary and Turkey, study finds
By Ivana Kottasová, CNN
Updated 10:24 AM EDT, Mon October 26, 2020

(CNN)The GOP is starting to look a lot like an autocratic party, a large study into political identity has found.

Experts from the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden said the US Republican Party had become more illiberal and populist in recent decades and that its recent retreat from democratic norms has left it resembling authoritarian ruling parties like Hungary's Fidesz and Turkey's AKP.

"What we see is that the disrespect of political opponents, the encouragement of violence and also the violation of minority rights ... they have all clearly increased with the Republican Party in recent years, since [President Donald Trump] came in the leadership but also before that," Anna Luehrmann, V-Dem's deputy director and one of the lead authors of the study, told CNN.

Read more @ https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/26/world/republican-party-more-illiberal-study-intl/index.html

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[bdamomma]

1. Hey

they want people in the streets we already started VOTE like our lives depend on it literally.

[DBoon]

2. Starting?

They've been in full autocrat mode for decades

[musette_sf]

3. K&R

[UCmeNdc]

4. K&R

Yes, that is Trump's 'Merica!