Mini-Trumps are coming up all over Europe

Handelsblatt ^ | December 29, 2017 | Francis Fukuyama/Jens Münchrath/ Anke Rezmer

[polymuser]

“Authoritarianism seems to be on the rise across the globe, ”

No, it’s sovereignty that’s awakening, dear ignorant can commie writers.

So many upside down points in this article, it’s funny. Sadly funny. Mid-1900’s liberalism came from Marxism, in the United States it came heavily from Frankfurt School immigrants from...Germany. And again, USA is and always has been a REPUBLIC, not a democracy (thank God!).

Go Trump! MAGA!

[jdsteel]

“It is happening around the world in spite of 8 years of Obamaunism and the EUSSR.”

It is happening around the world BECAUSE of 8 years of Obamaunism and the EUSSR.

Our founders created the US the way the did because they lived through the experience of life under a king.

[CottonBall]

Me too - Trump never bellows. He is incredibly soft spoken. The power in what he says is in his words.

[pepsi_junkie]

When Donald Trump bellowed “America First!” in his inauguration speech, it all started to seem real. Previously, many observers had convinced themselves that Mr. Trump would be transformed by the office. Now it’s become clear that the president wasn’t joking: He fully intends to up-end the liberal world order, established by the United States after the end of World War II in 1945. [...]

Who better to analyse this than Francis Fukuyama, the American historian whose book “the End of History” coined that phrase? Though this became a post-Cold War cliché, his idea survived: That liberal democracy was the only game in town, its challengers consigned to the trashcan of history. Now, suddenly, that idea seems both outmoded and hubristic. That’s something Mr. Fukuyama himself recognizes. “We are witnessing a period in which democracy is being threatened in way I have not experienced in my lifetime,” he said.

Let me get this straight: voters electing someone who will listen to them and do their will, act in their interests, is the greatest threat to democracy this "Expert" has ever seen? I think he needs to look to the dictionary to refresh himself on what "democracy" means. Hint: It doesn't mean forcing voters to subvert themselves to the will of some global consensus or sacrifice their own desires for those of some cadre of elites who "know better". That's something else.

[hinckley buzzard]

Fukuyama distinguished himself by making the most grandiose and idiotic prediction in recent history, totally ignoring the stirring Islamic behemoth beneath his feet. Now, he outdoes himself with such hysterical hyperbole and misunderstanding of current events, even more blind than he was in the ‘90’s.

[pax_et_bonum]

You might want to add to your list POLITICAL CORRECTNESS...

I agree.

[NutsOnYew]

writing about how to make globalization fairer

They change the story, but never the underlying plot. It's always about redistribution.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

If they attain elected power this bodes well for freedom across the Western Hemisphere.

[dirtboy]

That’s something Mr. Fukuyama himself recognizes. “We are witnessing a period in which democracy is being threatened in way I have not experienced in my lifetime,” he said.

It isn't democracy being threatened. It is the undemocratic, cynical and corrupt liberal bureaucratic structures that are being threatened, and for damned good reason.