A specter is haunting Europe, and the world — the specter of elected despotism. In Egypt, Turkey, Russia, Georgia, Iran, and even as far afield as Venezuela, a new order is challenging the Western model of liberal democracy.
Turkey’s recent election shows this phenomenon is replicable and contagious, not absolutist in the form of fascism or communism but a hybrid that mimics democratic protocols. We keep thinking that we must be patient, that these are states in transition, that they’ll get there in the end because the positives inevitably overpower all else, resulting always in liberal democracy. Instead we keep seeing …read more
Source: European Voice
