Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine

Textbook democratic erosion. No one fears challenging the government in a functioning liberal democracy.

What the Columbia Settlement Really Means

"The settlement narrows Columbia’s autonomy with respect to admissions, the hiring and promotion of faculty, and curriculum... It imposes new rules relating to protest on campus and student discipline that should be entirely the province of the university to decide."

This 👇

this could be a serious blow for Orbán's Fidesz, which "outspends everyone on Meta’s Facebook and Instagram" (via @politico.com) opposition #TISZA already leads the polls, despite the €371K spent on GONGOs and Astroturf influencers over the course of a single month (!) to discredit the party leader

Regular reminder to 🇩🇪 parties who see such numbers:

That AfD got strong bc nobody represented right-wing populist positions does not mean that AfD will lose if you adopt such positions.

Often it may just make things worse: you acknowledge you were wrong, AfD was right & now you appear spineless.

Weidel auf dem Weg zum Platz in der ersten Reihe auf dem MCC Feszt

Ludwig und Weidel schütteln sich die Hand und reden

Ludwig, Tichy und Weidel lächelnd im Gespräch

Ludwig und Weidel (im MCC T-shirt) nach dem Panel, lächelnd im Gespräch

Saskia Ludwig (CDU), war am Freitag Teil eines Panels des MCC - der Orbánschen Kaderschmiede - zusammen mit Max Tichy, Sohn von Roland Tichy, der ebenfalls bei Tichys Einblick arbeitet. In der 1. Reihe im Publikum: Alice Weidel. Ludwig und Weidel schütteln sich die Hand, sprechen 2x miteinander

Here’s hoping university administrators are as clear eyed about protecting academic freedom and faculty governance as the signatories of this excellent letter.

So, European and EU politics folks, this 👇 is where we need your newest work to be submitted and discussed next year @epssnet.bsky.social first conference in Belfast!

I am happy to co-chair the section with Bjorn Hoyland, and looking 👀 forward to your submissions.

Perhaps the European Commission should adopt this strategy and talk about 800 billion plus 300 billion plus 850 billion coming from US to Europe, just out of fun 👇.

The next phase of the competitive (?) authoritarianism is to allow gerrymandering, but only in GOP-controlled states.

Again, Democracy Dies In Unilateral Disarmament: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

And again, I ask, sincerely & without trying to be overly alarmist: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Nicht nur als Biathlon-Fan habe ich sie bewundert.

Weil das eine der wenigen Dinge ist, die unter reine EU-Kompetenz fallen — würde ich vermuten. Handel würde ja wichtige Interessen betreffen 😉.

I fear they believe it serves both purposes simultaneously.

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Again, the thing folks need to spend a lot more time pondering - instead of obsessing about the end of 🇺🇸 power/hegemony - is that 🇺🇸 power/hegemony is going to persist in a much uglier, unilateralist, & selfish form

So much for European soft and hard power as well as European strategic autonomy. If this is what the EU can achieve in ***trade*** of all the things, things look dire.

🚨EU sources say deal done with Trump in Scotland

Orbán is in danger of losing power, and possibly going to jail (with friends and family), and he knows it. This makes him extra dangerous and means the EU should be extra vigilant the coming months.

Interesting read on RoL saga in Poland 🇵🇱 👇

Take this opportunity to criticize violations of Schengen by several member states, rather than pretend everything is in best order! Thanks 🙏

Traveling within Europe „Should be hassle-free“ but isn’t, given all the Schengen violations by several member states. What will you do about it @europarl.europa.eu ?

I fear the one thing the essay may have overestimated - from today's perceptive - is (democratic) publics' willingness to stand up to the autocrats when the signals are clear, when they remind us of the dictatorships of the 20th century. We are still the deer caught in headlights. 3/3

While in 2018, it was lucid to see that autocrats (Erdogan, Orban, Putin, Chavez) "do not, as a first resort, call out the tanks or declare a state of emergency; they do not enter office with a phalanx of soldiers". By now, we have seen them do all of this. What else do we need to see clearly? 2/3

Just read @kimlanelaw.bsky.social "Autocratic Legalism". I guess if I could assign one text to every citizen living in liberal or increasingly illiberal democracies today, it would be this. Not only for understanding the dangers to liberal democracy today, but also for seeing how far we got. 1/3

Do you honestly think they would uphold minority rights, that they would respect the rule of law, that they would hold free and fair elections? If your answer is no, then it is time to change the concepts and vocabulary that we use for these people and call them what they are.

More deeply authoritarian, far-right, repressive measures by the US government. If you do not want to call the underlying ideology fascist then what is it? It is essential to stop wrapping this in euphemist terminology and narratives of populism, polarization or illiberalism.

Dazu Stau an der Grenze und Verärgerung unserer europäischen Nachbarn

TRUMP hat mit seinem Gerede vom deep state und einer Justiz, die angeblich politisiert sei, um ihn zu verfolgen, SEINEN STAATSSTREICH vorzubereitet. Wir sollten genau hinsehen, wie die AfD jetzt das Vertrauen in die Unabhängigkeit des höchsten deutschen Gerichts untergräbt.

Und da hast du deine Antwort. 😆

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