Status Updates From Twilight of Democracy: The ...

The far left and right are united by there cynicism towards democratic institutions, where noted transgressions and corruption is taken as a sign that the system itself should be abandoned and an idea that there is an equivalency between autocratic states such as the Russia, and democracies like the USA.

Interesting global perspective on how multinational right wing alliances have formed by focussing on real and imagined uniting threats (progressivism, Islam, feminism etc), and how orban acts as a model on establishing an authoritarian grip of institutions such as the media.

Funny passage on hungary and polands use of xenophobia despite not attracting immigrants. Less funny passage about attempts at breaking down institutions (EU, courts, modifying constitutions) in the pursuit of revolutionary politics motivated by nostalgia and practices through deception that is enabled by the engineered distrust of institutions and the idea of universal truth.