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Martin Wolf on saving democratic capitalism: the ‘democratic recession’
FT News Briefing
The Playbook of the Autocrats
The playbook that the autocrats have been using starts by demonizing the opposition as illegitimate and not really of and for the people. They go to war on the media, because if you don't have a free and pluralistic media, you've lost one of the most vital checks on tyranny. Then they just move through the other levers of power, the civil service, the intelligence services, certainly the state security apparatus. This is a common playbook. It's visible across all these authoritarian projects.
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