C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's administration has rewritten Hungary's constitution to consolidate his power. U.S. conservatives are taking note.
“This kind of like the definition of illiberal democracy. It looks like a democracy from the outside. There's voting. There's courts. There's a parliament. But if you look at the details, one party runs it, one man runs the party, and it's pretty authoritarian.”
Conservatives in the United States have the advantage of advancing their illiberal, anti-democratic agenda by corrupting the mechanics of the American political process where the presidency, control of the Senate, and control of the courts are determined by the states, not the people.
From the outside it looks like a ‘democracy’ – there’s voting, functioning courts, the façade of ‘political opposition’ – but it’s fundamentally the authoritarianism of Republican minority rule.
“This kind of like the definition of illiberal democracy. It looks like a democracy from the outside. There's voting. There's courts. There's a parliament. But if you look at the details, one party runs it, one man runs the party, and it's pretty authoritarian.”
Conservatives in the United States have the advantage of advancing their illiberal, anti-democratic agenda by corrupting the mechanics of the American political process where the presidency, control of the Senate, and control of the courts are determined by the states, not the people.
From the outside it looks like a ‘democracy’ – there’s voting, functioning courts, the façade of ‘political opposition’ – but it’s fundamentally the authoritarianism of Republican minority rule.