The Rise of Authoritarianism and National Solidarity

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I think we entered into some new train that people haven't heard before, and we got into some aspects of it here. If i were to talk about where we could go, i might be curious about sort of where we are with the post us. I'm not an expert on unthe us or on any other country, not even my own. When i look at the lobal situation, two things are very clear. First of all, we see the rise of authoritarian figures and authoritarian regimes in many different countries which have completely different characteristics. And also what you see alongside it is the collapse of two things: nationalism and traditional conservative parties.

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