C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
Donald Trump has turned toxic and Viktor Orbán is toast. But the authoritarian threat isn't going away
“It wasn’t a great week for the far right’s self-appointed crusade to reconquer Europe as a fairytale paradise of whiteness and Christianity. Maybe that’s because that whole idea is vaporware, rooted in a nonsensical social and historical vision and devoted to a losing battle against economic and demographic reality. But that quality of noble, doomed struggle toward impossible goals is both the far-right movement’s fundamental weakness and the source of its power and danger.
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Magyar’s big win, in other words, feels rather too much like Joe Biden’s one-sided victory in the pandemic-year presidential election of 2020. It’s nearly impossible to remember now how much that felt, for millions of Americans — and many more millions around the world — like a moment of redemption and release, and like the sure and certain end of the Trumpian nightmare. As drastically different as Hungary and the United States are, the central quandary remains the same: Pulling together a pro-democracy coalition to bring down a reactionary regime is one thing; managing democratic governance in a way that disempowers or defeats the deeply entrenched reactionary forces within Western society is quite another.”
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The battle for the United States is long from over, as well.
As in 2021, ridding America of the Trump malignancy in 2029 won’t be the end of the authoritarian right.
Indeed, a future Republican president is at liberty to be as much of an authoritarian despot as Trump given the right’s blind support for the Imperial Presidency and the Supreme Court’s conservative majority codifying unitary executive dogma.
“It wasn’t a great week for the far right’s self-appointed crusade to reconquer Europe as a fairytale paradise of whiteness and Christianity. Maybe that’s because that whole idea is vaporware, rooted in a nonsensical social and historical vision and devoted to a losing battle against economic and demographic reality. But that quality of noble, doomed struggle toward impossible goals is both the far-right movement’s fundamental weakness and the source of its power and danger.
[…]
Magyar’s big win, in other words, feels rather too much like Joe Biden’s one-sided victory in the pandemic-year presidential election of 2020. It’s nearly impossible to remember now how much that felt, for millions of Americans — and many more millions around the world — like a moment of redemption and release, and like the sure and certain end of the Trumpian nightmare. As drastically different as Hungary and the United States are, the central quandary remains the same: Pulling together a pro-democracy coalition to bring down a reactionary regime is one thing; managing democratic governance in a way that disempowers or defeats the deeply entrenched reactionary forces within Western society is quite another.”
MAGA lost big in Hungary — but the battle for Europe isn't over - Salon.com
Donald Trump has turned toxic and Viktor Orbán is toast. But the authoritarian threat isn't going away
www.salon.com
The battle for the United States is long from over, as well.
As in 2021, ridding America of the Trump malignancy in 2029 won’t be the end of the authoritarian right.
Indeed, a future Republican president is at liberty to be as much of an authoritarian despot as Trump given the right’s blind support for the Imperial Presidency and the Supreme Court’s conservative majority codifying unitary executive dogma.
