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6. Recommend Anne Applebaum's Autocracy Inc.

Thu Feb 27, 2025, 12:09 PM

Feb 2025

Also trying to gift an Atlantic article proposing that "... it is not classic authoritarianism--nor is it autocracy, oligarchy, or monarchy. Trump is installing what scholars call patrimonialism."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/corruption-trump-administration/681794/?gift=Dg604QyZ-_9n-X5wEEw47BPn2E8R--4nZHu6YbESlAY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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UPDATE: DU history buffs, which modern country's fall to autocracy... [View all] OneGrassRoot Feb 2025 OP

I think Turkey under Erdogan and Venezuela under Maduro would qualify. Lonestarblue Feb 2025 #1

I was shocked at how rapidly Turkey turned dhol82 Feb 2025 #3

Turkey had a long troubled history as a democratic republic Voltaire2 Feb 2025 #9

Hungary under Victor Orban. mainer Feb 2025 #2

Orban obamanut2012 Feb 2025 #4

Hungary is a good example. Voltaire2 Feb 2025 #5

Recommend Anne Applebaum's Autocracy Inc. EverHopeful Feb 2025 #6

Thank you very much! It worked. Off to read... n/t OneGrassRoot Feb 2025 #7

kick for update n/t OneGrassRoot Feb 2025 #8