HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
Exactly my point.
Re/ women's rights and abortion, I saw an interesting analysis piece (The Atlantic?) in about 2022 that stated that Poland had become a "testing ground" for right-wing laws like extreme limits on abortion for the international right, chiefly dominated by GQP "think tanks" aka pressure groups like the Federalist Society.
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
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Alas, this is only part of the story I remembered, but it holds important, excellent phrased truths:
"#Poland [alternative read: 👉"the #US under #Trump,] in short, may be poised to turn into a Potemkin democracy, an empty simulacrum of genuine self-government. And that once again reveals the alarming brittleness of democracy, with even the most vaunted democratic success stories deeply vulnerable to authoritarian capture.👈
"To...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
#Democracy #Poland #USA #USpol #GeoPol #Politics
...understand the developments in #Poland—and similar ones in such countries as #Turkey, #India, and *#America*—👉the simple binary of democracy and dictatorship will not do.👈
#Poland, like so many other countries 👉[the #US], is evolving into an embattled system that political scientists have described by such names as “*illiberal democracy*” and “competitive authoritarian regime.”👈
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