#DEMOCRACY

Trump is now smearing the greatest democracy in the world while simultaneously telling us the truth by projection, that he’s been a fake president. As said repeatedly, Trump will destroy
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1/ Bringing ashamed Trump supporters to the table. Lessons about violence prevention from my Northern Ireland discussion group. #Inauguration2021 #January6th #democracy #violentextremism 2/ Americans are at a pivotal moment
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.@DonSiegelman predicted this in June. Don is Alabama’s last Democratic governor (he lost re-election in 02 after 6K votes were switched from his column to his opponent’s) & also served
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Tonight, I tried to remind the majority of Lords declaring they will do whatever is necessary to remove part 5 from the #InternalMarketBill, that this was an affront to democracy...
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This weekend I went through @EBRD Annual Reviews back to 2005 and matched with @vdeminstitute's democracy indices to see if its activities followed its stated commitment to multiparty democracy. Here's
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This has always been one of the reasons they normalize. @RyanLizza says Obama's speech was about "something that is frankly difficult for political reporters who are used to litigating policy
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Thread: I’m am so sick of centrists/Labour MPs/Journalists lying through their back teeth about #LabourLeaks. Labour Party staff subverted democracy, aided and abetted by Tories to remove Corbyn from power.
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We’ve gotta stop saying the USA was founded on ideals of freedom when that’s simply untrue. The white colonizers who founded this nation did not invent the idea of freedom
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3 days ago I suggested Trump's ploy was dangerous, irresponsible & would "legitimise loonies". In National Populism, we argued that Trump was closer to a distinct American populism than fascism.
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I think Democratic Senators should feel as obliged to honor their promise as McConnell felt obliged to honor his own Merrick Garland rule about not confirming judges in an election
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For the past week, Hong Kong has grappled with daily arrests and detention of some of its most dedicated activists. Is the only option to flee, "or stay here and
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Good news:Senate Dems will introduce a sweeping pro-democracy bill today as the first bill under their new majority. Includes automatic voter registration, rehabbing Voting Rights Act, and more.It's the Dem
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Listening to US media and I'm out of patience with the presumption of goodwill assigned to malevolent actors despite decades of evidence. So here are two baseline hypotheses:1) the far
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: China is not a social democracy. A social democracy implies liberal democracy, social programs funded through imperialism, no serious desire to eliminate capitalism. China does not check any of
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Fascism does not begin with genocide; that is where it can end. As a German, I have been taught that all my life because that is where it did end
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1/4I love how Indian PM #Modi ji repeatedly reminds us that India is the MOTHER of democracy.Ostensibly Rig ved & Atharv ved both mention words like SABHA,SAMITI & Rajan/Raja (householder/leader).It
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