#Democracy

Van Jackson ✊🏾

WonkVJ

If you're not paying attention to South Korea, that's ok. Just know there's a wildly partisan polarising fight happening in public discourse with experts pointing to illiberalism and democratic decay

Tokyo Sand

DHStokyo

With the news that a dozen Republican senators plan to be openly hostile to #democracy on Jan. 6, and the understandable frenzy on social & the media about this, I

Greg Johnson

TornadoGreg

Like all of the coherent, sane, and educated people on this platform I am not only anti-trump, I am anti-fascism (Everyone should be anti Fascism), anti-trump-supporters, anti-terrorism of any kind,

sean baillie

seanbaillie9

Socioeconomic systems just don’t turn on and off they evolve through struggle, bit by bit. That’s what we are living through, the beginning of the 20th seen an intense battle

David Leask

LeaskyHT

I feel the need to face check these exceptionalist claims. 1/the number of non-native English speakers is disputed. Depends what you mean by “speak”. English/Brit nationalists frequently over-estimate numbers of

Fife4Europe 🇪🇺 #FBPE #RejoinEU #3.5%

EuropeFife

Never in our lifetimes has our democracy been so under threat. We in the European Movement in Scotland are an avowedly pro-EU group, drawing support from across society and all

Walter Shaub

waltshaub

I've devoted my career to government ethics, and I'm about to start a new chapter in that career today. The past four years taught us how weak our government's anticorruption

Brad Shannon

BradleyRoss

"Both sides" and academia - a thread.Here's the problem with placating right-wing grifters and loons who shout about "liberal indoctrination" from their positions as radio and TV hosts pandering to

Nate McMurray

Nate_McMurray

OPEN LETTER: THE MOST IMPORTANT LAW OF OUR LIFETIME?—THE LAST STAND FOR DEMOCRACYOut of all the priorities before our new government, I’d argue that nothing is more important than House

Math Campbell-Sturgess

mathcampbell

Was debating the merits of plan B (civilly) vs Plan A with @AngusMacNeilSNP earlier and this came to a point I wanted to make a thread of it. He or

Courtenay Stallings

CourtenayCal

Scholars of fascism, the far right and authoritarianism wrote an open letter of concern that "regardless of the outcome of the United States’ election, democracy as we know it is

Amanda Marcotte

AmandaMarcotte

A popular but incorrect theory that's out there is Republican politicians are supporting Trump's coup because of "fear". While it's pleasant to imagine that they are cowards instead of traitors,

Michael E. Porter

MichaelEPorter

The Horrifying Consequences of America’s Unchecked ‘Politics Industry’: 1/ America is in trouble. And while 2020 has provided ample evidence of our inability to deliver results—particularly around crisis preparedness and

Navid 🧢🇺🇸

NYCNavid

"Edmund Burke was both right and hard right. He was as in favor of the American Revolution as he was horrified by the French; he believed in pluralism, modest but

Matt Goodwin

GoodwinMJ

This is not a popular point but the real specialists on historic fascism are actually divided on whether Trump is a fascist. Robert Paxton says he is while Roger Griffin,

Sean Casten

SeanCasten

126 members of the @HouseGOP asked SCOTUS to throw out the results of democratic elections in GA, PA, WI and MI. 121 members voted AFTER terrorists stormed the capital to

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