Tag: Authoritarian
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The Authoritarian’s Handy Guide to Governance
The Spanish media framed Erdogan’s move against the Istanbul mayor as a shift from competitive authoritarianism to hegemonic authoritarianism—a distinction so precise it belongs in a political science textbook, or maybe a corporate branding manual. The Authoritarian’s Handy Guide to Governance (Now with Corporate Sponsors™ and Countries Included!) Ever feel like democracy comes in different…
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“Everything Is Fine, Except When It Isn’t”: The Ideological Catastrophe of False Equivalence
In the image before us, we encounter a political compass that deftly captures the underlying absurdities of our contemporary ideological landscape. Each quadrant satirically reduces the moral and political concerns of a particular ideological position to a singular, paradoxical statement: everything is framed as a dire issue except for the most egregious examples of that…