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How to beat the strongmen – and save democracy

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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Are We on the Way to Hell?

For the first time since 2004, there are more autocracies than democracies in the world. I think we forget sometimes that how did Viktor Orban kind of come into power? He came into power because the left was fairly inept. It all strikes me as the kind of Dracula syndrome. You only need to invite Dracula in once and then he can come in whenever he likes. Exactly. So, it's one of the key problems in these places that autocracy is actually quite good at delivering.

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