Are Elections Competitive in Sweden?

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Sweden is a country that's pioneering a model for democratic destruction. The opposition, as we just saw in the election of april this year, was not competing on a fair playing ground. And so when you're looking to model that, what you are modelling is a play book for authoritarianism. With the way the united states is going with its democracy feeling a little shaky,. Does the united states look more like hungary? Or does the united states stay the united states?

The Conservative Political Action Conference, which is like Republican Coachella, is usually held stateside, but this week it's throwing a party in Budapest, Hungary. Noel King got kicked out.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan with Haleema Shah, edited by Jolie Myers and Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey and Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King.

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