Reviewing the 2019 Indian election where PM Modi increased his votes to one of the largest majorities India had ever seen

The “Hindu-nationalist” Party was popular amongst the least educated, lowest income groups, low-castes, and even Muslims (beating the Congress Party)

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These groups should logically be part of Left parties’ voter bases, or at least the “center left” Congress

Opposition & Western Liberals cannot resort to “MuH FaScIsM” to describe this democratic mandate

You can disagree with Modi, as I do, but how does one define this?

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My friend @ruchirsharma_1, a Marxist, has written a brilliant article explaining “Modian Socialism”

It’s great in understanding that almost every party in India is “fiscally Left socially Right” & Modi has been kind of progressive towards minorities

3/n https://swarajyamag.com/politics/what-the-media-gets-wrong-about-india-a-guide-to-the-2019-elections

Modern Left-Right paradigms are withering away, especially in the Orient

Modi isn’t Trump, Orbán or Netanyahu

Western libs need to view India from an Indian lens; Indian Left needs to reevaluate its approach to basically everything

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