#authoritarian-tactics

#authoritarian-tactics

Illiberal populism has spread across the world, either challenging for power or entrenching itself in office, from Argentina to Italy, France to Indonesia, Hungary to Britain. But probably the most significant example of a relatively free, pluralist society and political system turning into something very different remains the US, now nine months into Donald Trump's second term. As it often does, the US is demonstrating what the future could be for much of the world.

In a modern revival of Grigory Potemkin's possibly apocryphal deception of Catherine the Great, local officials in Suzdal covered dilapidated buildings with wallpaper to hide decay.