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Is Mexico slipping into autocracy?

The Rachman Review

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I Voted for Him Three Times and He Won by a Landslide

I voted for him three times. But I thought that he had tempered himself, had become more moderate. He surrounded himself by pragmatists who vowed that he was going to govern like a social democrat and reign himself in. That didn't turn out to be the case. The landslide empowered him to create a mandate that the polls did not give him. And because he also won a majority in Congress, it gave him the political and institutional capacity to govern like an imperial president.

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