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"The future was better yesterday."

The first line from Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes' new book The Light That Failed

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Krastev on post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe:

"Having initially cheered the ‘return’ to normality, some of the leading dissidents ended up disillusioned by the monotony of post-heroic times"
Krastev on Orban: He "fell in love with freedom but ended up enthralled with his own absolute power"
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Shadi Hamid
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Out of all the Democratic candidates Bloomberg was the only one who said that normal relations with China should *not* be contingent on "closing its internment camps for Uighurs and other Muslim minority groups"

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Bloomberg is the only Democratic candidate who seems—like Trump—to have a soft spot for the worst authoritarian regimes. He refused, for example, to call Chinese leader Xi Jinping a "dictator"

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Much has been written about Bloomberg's pretty bad record on domestic issues, but his foreign policy views are also legitimately frightening and completely contrary to everything the Democratic Party is supposed to stand for
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Shadi Hamid
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Important read from @jacksondiehl on how there's a lot to like in Bernie's foreign policy for anyone who cares about supporting democracy and living up to our values abroad

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Diehl on Bernie:

"What emerges is a politician strongly shaped by his opposition to U.S. military interventions abroad, but also by a conviction that the United States should do what it can to support democracy and resist authoritarianism"
As I've argued before, there should be a way to combine opposition to the militarization of US foreign policy *with* support for democracy in the Middle East, since democracy promotion (at least before Bush) wasn't seen as something that relied on military action
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Episode 11 of @WisdomCrowdsPod is live!

We talk racism & colonialism, weaponizing wokeness, the illegitimacy of the Chinese state, why too much consensus can be bad, and whether it's odd to believe in God

Wholesome fun for the whole family! soundcloud.com/the-wisdom-of-…
Here, I expand on my argument that the Chinese regime is inherently weak because it's inherently unstable, and it's inherently unstable because it's an authoritarian regime. Regime type matters, and, for this reason alone, the US enjoys a huge long-term advantage
Drawing on Ivan Krastev's work, @dmarusic & I discuss the conceptual flaw at the heart of the European Union, that citizens of a nation state could ever find the idea of a supranational, technocratic body as inspiring as their own nationalism
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One thing is becoming very clear in Italy at this stage: We won't have any real clarity about who governs the country for weeks to come.

Meanwhile, the big picture takeaway is depressingly obvious: the populists won BIG tonight.

The obligatory thread about #elezioni2018.

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There were three main populist groups in this election:
* Berlusconi, the old-style populist.
* Five Stars, an inchaote movement open to Russian influence and anti-immigrant rhetoric,
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The nightmare scenario now is a coalition between Five Stars and the Northern League. This would be utterly unpredictable in terms of policy and might well lead to Italy crashing out of the euro.

It's not clear whether the two parties will have a majority though.

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