When did Hungary, Poland, Venezuela, Turkey, and The Philippines began democratic backsliding? (user search)
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« on: September 23, 2021, 02:03:49 PM »

There's some truth to what PSOL is saying about Poland and Hungary, in the sense that these weren't polities that ever really completed a transition to liberal democracy in the first place and so the democratic backsliding there is really best understood as the West no longer having the moral capital to force them to LARP as liberal democracies. He's also right that Turkey has always been like this and that the death knell for Venezuela was probably Maduro succeeding Chavez (I'd add that if Capriles had beaten Maduro in 2013 there might have been an Eisenhower-style consolidation of a somewhat-watered-down Bolivarian consensus, rather than what Venezuela actually got.)  I don't know enough about the Philippines to say for sure but I suspect that it's, again, kind of always been like this on one level or another.
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