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Aug 21, 2018 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
"While in the U.S. and Western Europe it is premature to speak of a full-fledged populist government, much less regime change, here too the threats to democratic constitutionalism…are profound.” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… – Jean Cohen @Columbia
“It is worth remembering that Orbán was the first major European politician to endorse Trump (whose victory he celebrated as a ‘return to reality’ in the face of political correctness and liberal hypocrisies).” nybooks.com/articles/2018/… "Homo Orbánicus"
“The very scope of the challenge underscores the gravity of the current moment—& the need to be open to lessons from other national & political histories that once seemed of little relevance to the American experience.” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…@r_lieberman
"It looks like the current crisis will simmer for the foreseeable future. Nothing much will change except for increased…polarization and increasing intensity of conflicts, at the extreme erupting…in spirals of State and anti-State violence.”
@BenChu_ “Populisms have a legitimate place in liberal democracies. One could even say that they are inevitable given the likelihood of entropy inherent in these regimes.” A Balance Sheet of the Vices & Virtues of ‘Populisms’: eui.eu/Documents/Depa… Schmitter 2006
