Authoritarian forces are on the rise around the globe: Austria, Poland, Turkey, Russia, USA... One cannot assume that these different developments are part of a big plan, each is caused by different circumstances. And while it is important to understand these reasons - they should not overshadow what unite those different cases. Because in the authoritarian offer is in fact the same everywhere: It promises a different political order, namely an unfiltered governance without institutional control and compromise - a new type of direct democracy, understood as a plebiscite confirming unity of government and people. This citizen is defined everywhere exclusively, along the lines of nation, ethnicity and/or religion. The authoritarian promise is: I feel your pain. I'll protect you. With me you come back to how it had been before. This is why one can and indeed must remove from power and destroyed the "detached elites", including their institutions (political parties, media, constitutional courts, "Washington", "Brussels" etc).
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