Anti-democratic politics in one Western country, in short, enable anti-democratic politics in another.
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How confident are you that America is experiencing just an anti-democratic moment and not an anti-democratic trend?
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Indeed, what's depressing is that the egregiously anti-democratic aspects of the Electoral College will have self-reinforcing anti-democratic effects.
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But many critics — including Atiku — called the move anti-democratic.
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The Fox & Friends morning show is an anti-Democratic show.
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Citron warned that anti-democratic states — perhaps Russia or North Korea or other anti-democratic entities — might seek to use the chaos and uncertainty of moments like these to perform destabilizing actions against progressivism.
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Protest as loudly as possible if he does anything anti-democratic.
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This might be less than ideal, but it's not anti-democratic.
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The Electoral College, in other words, is anti-democratic twice over.
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Not long ago, these Americans lived under violent, anti-democratic governments.
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Partisan gerrymandering is, on its face, an obviously anti-democratic practice.
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Anti-democratic Salafi militias are taking on the role of police.
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The result is tit-for-tat escalation, where an anti-democratic move by one side is met with anti-democratic escalation by the other, a dangerous cycle that has culminated in one side seizing authoritarian control outright.
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But more recently the anti-democratic strain of liberalism has reasserted itself.
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Maia's allies have called Bolsonaro anti-democratic for demonizing Brasilia's political class.
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Can we really design institutions that protect us from anti-democratic ideas?
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If Republicans outmaneuver Trump in Cleveland, it will be called anti-democratic.
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But here's something they're rarely called but ought to be: anti-democratic.
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" They say the injunctions against "persons unknown" are "draconian" and "anti-democratic.
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The anti-democratic pathologies generated by American democracy have now overwhelmed it.
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That has been criticized by leaders throughout the Americas as anti-democratic.
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Some of the causes of this anti-democratic drift are uniquely Israeli.
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It's that lack of transparency that makes the activity inherently anti-democratic.
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The common criticism today is that the Electoral College is anti-democratic.
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But pro-Kurdish opposition leaders argue this is a purely anti-democratic measure.
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One should applaud because on Europe's borders, the anti-democratic forces are converging.
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"They are acting in an anti-democratic way," he told reporters on Wednesday.
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Without these anti-democratic tools, the Republicans would be a permanent minority party.
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At first blush, this would seem about the most anti-democratic sentiment imaginable.
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This litany of anti-democratic abuses should feel distressingly familiar to American readers.
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That result would strike those who elected him as elitist and anti-democratic.
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This combination — an anti-democratic president and a quiescent Congress — is very dangerous.
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And with that, despite losing the popular vote, entered the White House. Anti-democratic?
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Today, money and diplomatic support from anti-democratic Arab regimes have emboldened the junta.
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The more anger there is out there, the better off anti-democratic forces are.
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Without his vote, any curbs on America's most anti-democratic manoeuver may prove elusive.
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There is nothing more anti-Democratic and un-American than strangling freedom of communication.
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But long before the coup, Erdogan's anti-democratic tendencies were already in stark display.
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It will encourage other anti-democratic practices by state lawmakers who seek more control.
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At the end of the day, what happened with that deal is anti-democratic.
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I am very concerned about the anti-democratic policies of the Ortega government, yes.
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Quotas, after all, have also been criticized for being anti-democratic, and anti-meritocratic.
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" President Prokopis Pavlopoulos described the attack as "a criminal and provocatively anti-democratic act.
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Strong-fisted leaders, often with anti-democratic impulses, have risen to power all around.
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The most serious of the corruption charges themselves center on similarly anti-democratic behavior.
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Kirk won Barack Obama's old seat in the big anti-Democratic upheaval of 2010.
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The Trump administration is, beyond any reasonable doubt, an anti-democratic, white nationalist regime.
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The clearest warning sign is the ascent of anti-democratic politicians into mainstream politics.
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But in truth, anti-democratic sentiment is common on all sides of the debate.
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But that's simply anti-democratic because it takes the choice away from actual voters themselves.
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There's a live debate over just how Democrats should respond to Republican anti-democratic moves.
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Since the referendum those advocating a soft Brexit have been shouted down as anti-democratic.
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Indeed, overlooking them could bolster anti-democratic forces with an interest in dismantling the advances.
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Yet most candidates have condemned it as too anti-democratic to be a serious proposal.
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As Brian Beutler notes in The New Republic, this is a purely anti-democratic fantasy.
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Domestically, the MHP, with its devotion to authoritarian ethos, will encourage Erdogan's anti-democratic tilt.
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They must sever all ties with anyone who engages in extremist or anti-democratic rhetoric.
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" President Ronald Reagan called it a "national scandal" in 1987 — "anti-democratic" and "un-American.
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The formal indictments represent the Israeli legal system striking back against his anti-democratic tendencies.
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A foreign actor interfering in a US electoral process is anti-democratic, plain and simple.
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Not only cover it up, in fact, but deepen the level of anti-democratic abuse.
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Mr. Trump's presidency was not the cause of this anti-democratic movement in American politics.
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In the places that were targeted, it was often seen as racist and anti-democratic.
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The positions of Israel's leadership reflect broader anti-democratic and anti-Arab trends in Israeli society.
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Anti-democratic regimes view the free flow of information as threatening to their foundations of power.
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First, it is anti-democratic and inconsistent with the sovereignty of the UK as a state.
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" Rousseff and her supporters have described the proceedings against her government as an anti-democratic "coup.
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But in Russia, the latter, anti-democratic view was in the majority (by 41% to 31%).
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The sooner we put these anti-democratic laws behind us, the better off we will be.
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But they would also seem to carry with them a great risk of anti-democratic surveillance.
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And neither seems willing or even able to acknowledge the anti-democratic implications of their worldview.
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The antidote to that problem, beyond eliminating the anti-democratic Electoral College, requires broadening economic dynamism.
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The greater truth is that the critics don't like the anti-Democratic result of the election.
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The Electoral College does not serve any legitimate purpose that could justify its anti-democratic aspects.
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Some 90,000 Poles marched against the Polish government in early May, protesting its anti-democratic trajectory.
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European leaders point to Mr. Trump's support for anti-democratic populists in Hungary, Poland and Italy.
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It's since become clear that secretive digital surveillance isn't just the domain of anti-democratic forces.
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Johnson has pledged to scrap the backstop plan, calling it a "divisive" and "anti-democratic" policy.
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The justices thus enshrined one of the most corrosive and anti-democratic practices in American politics.
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Supreme Court justices on the right now have a majority to impose their anti-democratic vision.
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American officials have expressed concern about the law, fearing it could amount to anti-Democratic backsliding.
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But today's G.O.P. is more like a radical, anti-democratic insurgency than a conventional political party.
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Mr. Trump has encouraged brutal, anti-democratic leaders in the Philippines, Turkey and, of course, Russia.
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He fought his country's economic isolation and efforts to drag the revolution down anti-democratic paths.
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The whistleblower shows us that this anti-democratic attitude has taken hold at the White House.
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Why have we let the government and their agencies have these extraordinary intrusive, anti-democratic powers.
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Fascism is profoundly anti-democratic, even though a fascist government may attain power through a democratic process.
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Watch the video above to see how Trump's anti-democratic impulses can slip under the media's radar.
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Some 90,000 Poles marched against the Polish government in early May, protesting the government's anti-democratic trajectory.
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This is explicitly anti-democratic, and a very dangerous game to play in this kind of climate.
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This anti-democratic approach to governance continues to generate historic low levels of legislation passed in Congress.
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"America is a nation of immigrants and we find this anti-democratic and fundamentally un-American." pic.twitter.
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"It overwhelmingly focuses on the US, while seeking support from anti-democratic countries and organizations," said Pompeo.
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Mr. Gulen, in an interview on Saturday, denied any involvement and condemned the coup as anti-democratic.
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They forget that fundamental features of the Constitution are even more anti-democratic than the Electoral College.
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They must actively oppose him, because he is an anti-democratic figure who threatens our country's institutions.
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But instead of challenging this racist and fundamentally anti-democratic notion, center-left parties have reinforced it.
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Calling for the president to be deposed sooner rather than later is ill-considered and anti-democratic.
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This infuriates liberal Serbs, who say the Europeans are indulging an authoritarian who engages in anti-democratic practices.
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She described the EU as a monstrous "chimera" and an "anti-democratic oligarchy" that France needed to leave.
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Even in the West, populism and polarisation have tarnished it, and anti-democratic politicians are on the rise.
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Rossello called the chairman's views "dictatorial" and "anti-democratic" in a 6,000-word letter to Bishop on Monday.
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But there's always been an anti-democratic undercurrent to the Valley's utopianism—and Thiel simply ran with it.
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America is attempting to pressure Venezuela's leaders to change their anti-democratic ways, through the imposition of sanctions.
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While supportive of the concept, he said the current proposal hands "anti-democratic powers" to Puerto Rico overseers.
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Rousseff said the recording, made public by federal judge Sergio Moro on Wednesday, was illegal and anti-democratic.
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"Karnataka has lost due to the conspiracy of anti-constitution, anti-democratic BJP," it said in a statement.
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A few exceptions stand out, offering hope that the anti-democratic trend may be cyclical rather than permanent.
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Trump has used the prerogatives of the executive branch to nearly obliterate U.S. censure of anti-democratic regimes.
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The opposition leader blasted Edelstein and Netanyahu, calling the refusal to convene the legislature unprecedented and anti-democratic.
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Robert Grosvenor unmasks the anti-democratic, hierarchical forces that go into the making of an impeccable monumental sculpture.
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Republicans have already suffered the costs of feeding their supporters a toxic diet of anti-Democratic Party propaganda.
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"There is too much democracy if you allow anti-democratic forces like (the NPD) to exist," said Bauer.
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"(G)errymandering is, as so many Justices have emphasized before, anti-democratic in the most profound sense," Kagan wrote.
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If the federal government then deprived Cleveland of the right to veto trade agreements, would that be anti-democratic?
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Rather, it's that the platforms by their very nature give anti-democratic politicians a leg up over their opponents.
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The same is true of anti-democratic sentiment, a growing threat that is frequently minimized if not utterly ignored.
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A conspiracy to steal the nomination from such a popular candidate will be interpreted as an anti-democratic coup.
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Brexit supporters say that after the vote to leave, any attempt to halt the process would be anti-democratic.
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That the shah was planning free elections—conveniently in the future—obscures the point of his anti-democratic character.
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The slide toward extra-constitutional, illegal and anti-democratic tactics to preserve GOP power is becoming its new brand.
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"I don't think it's anti-democratic for anyone to change their mind or have a second vote," he said.
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It is proof that the GOP grassroots are not in lock-step with their party elite's anti-democratic bent.
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In light of the Kremlin's anti-democratic rhetoric and collapsing economy, that Soviet-era nostalgia soon could wear off.
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The overwhelming view of the Electoral College then and since is that it is an anti-democratic constitutional anachronism.
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Mr. Daley, like many other critics, said he viewed Mr. Hofeller's accomplishments as anti-majoritarian, if not anti-democratic.
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Democratic U.S. Senator Cory Booker says "anti-democratic forces" are "undermining the strength and power of citizenship" in America.
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Yascha Mounk, a lecturer on government at Harvard University, said the anti-democratic fires raging should not be underestimated.
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To the other side, this only affirms suspicion that their opponents are innately anti-democratic and must be excluded.
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Mr. Trump took the lid off the Pandora's box of anti-democratic forces that had been seething for decades.
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The anti-democratic structures built into our system are increasing tensions in the country and undermining their own legitimacy.
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However, support for him has slipped amid slowing economic growth and concerns about government corruption and anti-democratic practices.
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Given the asymmetry of power, Israel's response will probably be harsher and increasingly seen as anti-democratic, or worse.
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Together, they will seek to enact a bigoted and anti-democratic agenda, threatening our values and endangering us all.
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Sanders also rejected political violence and criticized the anti-democratic nature of communist states such as the Soviet Union.
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Competing priorities: The country's domestic intelligence agency was created to prevent another Nazi party or similar anti-democratic force.
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Competing priorities: The country's domestic intelligence agency was created to prevent another Nazi party or similar anti-democratic force.
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Some union officials complained that the guild was anti-democratic, since drivers hadn't elected Machinists officials to represent them.
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The President has also been more willing to engage leaders the previous administration iced out because of anti-Democratic practices.
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The past several years of Netanyahu's time in office have been characterized by drift in two illiberal, anti-democratic directions.
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That Goebbels quote implies that it isn't, that anti-democratic forces will exploit free speech to bring down the system.
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It is now almost axiomatic that anti-democratic ideologies can be almost as dangerous as physical preparations to use force.
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Authoritarian leaders have a way of learning from one another in real time, which can create an anti-democratic spiral.
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And William Galston of the Brookings Institution argues that rising inequality has made a populist anti-democratic backlash more likely.
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"The multiplication of these deeply anti-democratic acts constitutes a serious attack on the functioning of our republic," Rachline said.
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In general, Trump has been more willing to engage leaders the previous administration froze out because of anti-Democratic practices.
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"As we are a civil liberties and strongly pro-European organization, we won't collaborate with anti-democratic forces," Lohninger says.
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Trump's rhetoric is not anti-democratic, it is in fact quite the opposite — dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
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Of all the rising stars on the right, none are more gleefully anti-democratic and dangerously competent than Kris Kobach.
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Although Latin Americans have little appetite for the dictators of the past, new types of anti-democratic politics could emerge.
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But he's only one wing of the anti-democratic trend in American politics—in the Republican Party, to be specific.
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Critics say his attempt to change the constitution to allow him to stay in power until 2025 is anti-democratic.
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Recent anti-democratic trends have only pushed the citizenry to work harder, and pushed our democracy to reach its potential.
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The debate over how to deal with Trump's anti-democratic following has largely avoided the question of engaging it directly.
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But balancing such aspirations with beating back the constant barrage of anti-democratic legislation from the right poses a challenge.
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Trump is looking for someone who will uphold his anti-democratic actions, and he clearly believes Gorsuch will do that.
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The bill, along with its messaging, are openly anti-Democratic in a way that is different from past Republican legislation.
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A chorus of anti-democratic Arab and non-Arab voices are using the media and the lobbyists to oppose democracy.
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Is the Republican Party too far gone, too willing to countenance anti-democratic behavior, to be able to reform itself?
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The United States — which condemned the election as unfair and anti-democratic even before it happened — has threatened stricter sanctions.
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A Michigan ballot initiative points the way to reforming gerrymandering, one of the most anti-democratic practices in American politics.
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The decisive question will be whether Brazilians fear Mr. Bolsonaro's anti-democratic message more than they hate the Workers Party.
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Tillerson also condemned Russian arms sales to authoritarian governments in the region, accusing Moscow of propping up anti-democratic regimes.
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Nothing in what Facebook has announced today resets the anti-democratic asymmetry inherent in the platform's relationship to its users.
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Even people who abhor Trump's crudeness, incompetence, bigotry and anti-democratic leanings may not vote against their own self-interest.
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Supporters argue that after 2016's referendum vote to leave, any attempt to halt the process would be anti-democratic.
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Time and again, the president has proven to be exactly the kind of anti-democratic, institutional menace many observers feared.
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"To have this Parliament that represents nobody in Brussels making laws for everybody, it's very anti-democratic," said Mr. Horowitz.
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It's time to stand up and oppose this anti-farmer, anti-worker, anti-consumer, anti-environment and anti-democratic legislation.
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The system is anti-democratic, especially given that the winning candidate received almost 3 million fewer votes than the runner-up.
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Support for anti-democratic alternatives could give rise to populist and authoritarian leaders that would be less predictable to work with.
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The legal challenge comes as Canada is slapping 14 Venezuelan leaders with sanctions, condemning the election as illegitimate and anti-democratic.
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"Anti-democratic conditions took hold in the PAN just like we had criticized in the PRI and other parties," she said.
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It is anti-democratic in the small-d sense; it's literally the same behavior national Democrats claim to decry in Republicans.
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Brexit supporters argue that after last year's referendum vote to leave, any attempt to halt the process would be anti-democratic.
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"Ever more governments are becoming reliant on parties with an anti-democratic agenda," Lofven said after winning the vote in parliament.
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"They are skilful, well-trained and have a lot at stake"—not least in shielding fellow anti-democratic regimes from condemnation.
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Indeed, robust growth may paradoxically have provided a buffer for anti-democratic populists to grasp political power without sparking widespread dissent.
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"On the right, we have an unprecedented movement clearly inspired by anti-republican and anti-democratic ideas," the centrist leaders wrote.
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Mr Valls's behaviour was anti-democratic, said Mr Martinez, for whom the labour law marks a "return to the 19th century".
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But if desperate Republicans try to establish an anti-Democratic rearguard on the Supreme Court before they get swept out of
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" The op-ed blasted Trump as "amoral" and "anti-democratic" and detailed Trump staffers' efforts to contain the president's "misguided impulses.
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And while "elite" has an obvious anti-democratic meaning, today the foreign policy establishment looks more like the America it guides.
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Second, the government's use of an article in the constitution to bypass parliament has led to accusations of anti-democratic behaviour.
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In the op-ed, the unidentified author denounced Trump's "anti-trade" and "anti-democratic" impulses, but praised some of his policies.
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I know many of those who voted for Trump, and they are by no means stupid, irrational, racist or anti-democratic.
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"The feeling is that Israel is going into what I would call a slippery slope of anti-democratic law," said Mendel.
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Defence Minister Naftali Bennett, one of Netanyahu's religious-nationalist coalition partners, described the reported initiative as "a radical, anti-democratic move".
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What's fascinating is how this official, who describes the president as amoral, anti-democratic and reckless, rationalizes working for him regardless.
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It is an extraordinary escalation of anti-democratic behavior from the right, gone almost completely unnoticed by the national political media.
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This machinery of undemocracy can only operate in a world where the prime minister himself is okay with anti-democratic drift.
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In my 30-plus years of working in politics, I have never seen a more anti-democratic policy from my party.
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A statement from the Prime Minister's office dismissed the protest as the rantings of a politically ineffective and anti-democratic opposition movement.
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And there's no better face for an increasingly radical and anti-democratic Supreme Court than the ruddy, yelling visage of Brett Kavanaugh.
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In his remarks Sunday, Schulz denounced the U.S. president's "misogynistic, anti-democratic, and racist" speech, and pledged to defend the European Union.
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He's certainly anti-democratic, and I say so in the book, but I don't call him a fascist because he isn't violent.
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Rousseff slammed the judge's release of the recordings, calling it illegal, anti-democratic and an affront to the rights of the presidency.
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But it would be worse still if he exploited an emergency as an opportunity to start walking his dangerously anti-democratic talk.
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Rajapaksa's appointment amounts to "an anti democratic coup," Sri Lanka's Minister of Finance and Mass Media Mangala Samaraweera said in a tweet.
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It is now a party led by a demagogic, authoritarian strongman whose rhetoric compares with the authoritarian, anti-democratic strongmen of history.
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Still, the truth is that any rule by the generals that stretches beyond their established role can only be deeply anti-democratic.
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He has since emerged as one of the clearest and most consistent voices of opposition to Trump's anti-democratic ideas and tactics.
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The rise of anti-democratic tendencies in Spain is deeply connected to the history of forcing neoliberal economic policies upon the people.
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Fortunately, a simple reform could help correct the anti-democratic nature of the rulemaking process: return to "formal" rulemaking in some cases.
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"Shameful, anti-democratic behavior by #Trudeau-appointed senators, including #SenCA Speaker, as they shut down legitimate debate in Chamber," tweeted Conservative Sen.
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Germany has some of the strictest laws on political extremism in the world, with rules allowing the banning of anti-democratic parties.
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Jim Crow wasn't just racially discriminatory; it was anti-democratic, rigging the system so racist whites couldn't lose their grip on power.
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" Despite having cleaned up their language, Mr. von Notz said, "They are deeply anti-Democratic, often very anti-Semitic and openly racist.
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Each group will use a recent Times article to study anti-democratic forces in one of three countries: Venezuela, Turkey and Hungary.
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An eye-glazing term, for sure, but it addresses a noxious anti-democratic practice, known as partisan gerrymandering, that is very real.
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Neither country has suffered democratic collapse, but Israel is demonstrating more severe symptoms of a foundational anti-democratic rot both have contracted.
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Opponents who criticize the result risk looking anti-democratic, trying to thwart the will of the people expressed at the ballot box.
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A surprise Republican victory could send a dangerous message that they can make such anti-democratic maneuvers — and get away with it.
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The president's anti-democratic impulses are one thing to behold — they often feel like an anomalous attack on America's key norms and institutions.
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Supporters of court-packing could argue that just because the same method is used doesn't mean that court-packing itself is anti-democratic.
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But the negative use of social media, as in the Trump and Bolsonaro campaigns, intrinsically advantages anti-democratic political factions over their opponents.
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But I do think his approach to the free press, to democratic institutions, to the independent judiciary, is extremely dangerous and anti-democratic.
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Lochnerism is a fundamentally anti-democratic legal doctrine rooted in the idea that property rights should override laws made by democratically elected officials.
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Any U.S. diplomatic support that bolsters Museveni's legitimacy and downplays criticism of his anti-democratic actions could smooth his path to re-election.
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And it happened because the United States uses an indefensible, anti-democratic anachronism to elect the most powerful figure in its federal government.
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They'll be violent, like the Salvadoran gang MS-13, or they'll introduce anti-democratic ideas into the pristine temple of American public discourse.
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On the other hand, the EU has increasingly become a neoliberal project and — partly because neoliberalism generally requires it — an anti-democratic one.
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Johnson had riled Russian officials before his visit by telling Britain's Sunday Times newspaper that Moscow was "closed, nasty, militaristic and anti-democratic".
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It presently seems remote because, in China, the ideology is becoming more ironclad and anti-democratic, and the projection of force more aggressive.
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In the past decade, the Russians and the Chinese have won loyalists to their anti-democratic, anti-Western and anti-American ideological systems.
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Adelman ended his article with a plea for leaders to fight against the anti-democratic agenda that he believes conservative judges are advancing.
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Iowa's caucuses are mind-numbingly convoluted and anti-democratic, favoring the most motivated, well-organized few over the less-obsessive majority of Iowans.
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In a lesson plan published earlier this month, we asked students to study anti-democratic forces in three countries: Venezuela, Turkey and Hungary.
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In national politics, as in Oregon, anti-democratic tactics and rhetoric are escalating on the right, but there is little pushback or accountability.
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The most hardline right-wingers, in turn, need Netanyahu and his devoted base of supporters to implement their pro-settlement, anti-democratic agenda.
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His announcement followed the arrest of some opposition figures who have backed the protests in a move seen by opponents as anti-democratic.
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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright pointed to Russia's "orchestrated anti-democratic campaign" as one of the most complex factors currently at work.
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Hard as it is, no one should be putting a thumb on the scale to pretend the Republicans' anti-democratic behavior is normal.
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Mr. Renzi had spent the three years since his resignation as prime minister excoriating Five Star as a band of anti-democratic hatemongers.
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Le Pen's call to destroy the "anti-democratic monster" of the EU works well as a sound bite, but implementing it won't be easy.
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Le Pen's call to destroy the 'anti-democratic monster' of the EU works well as a sound bite, but implementing it won't be easy.
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Trump's sympathizers, like Sarah Palin, who is threatening to back Ryan's challenger in the primary, argue that there is something anti-democratic about #NeverTrump.
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While these may seem like unconnected events, both demonstrate the ways liberal democratic systems are pushing back against anti-democratic excesses by their leaders.
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The global democratic tide, which began in 1974 with the end of Portugal's authoritarian regime, crested in 2006, making way for anti-democratic populists.
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The practice of allowing state governments to block local ordinances is called preemption and beyond its anti-democratic implications, preemption has troubling racial overtones.
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To put it simply, we are headed for an era in which America may well have a Democratic Party and an Anti-democratic Party.
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In the Netherlands, France and Italy, anti-European and, in some cases, anti-democratic politicians are questioning their countries' membership in the European Union.
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However, during this last campaign he significantly scaled back that bravado and the anti-democratic, populist, anger-stoking speeches — something Trump will never do.
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And it's quite possible that Americans will have learned to accept the economic, humanitarian, and anti-democratic costs imposed by an all-volunteer military.
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The columnist, Kadri Gursel, then urged his readers to protest the president's anti-democratic ways by lighting a cigarette and not putting it out.
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Those who push back on such claims argue that the existing underrepresentation of a large swath of the population is anti-democratic in itself.
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It's not that Republicans are anti-democratic, in the sense of wanting to tear down American democracy and replace it with an authoritarian alternative.
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"The EU is anti-democratic and beyond reform," said Enrico Tortolano, campaign director for Trade Unionists against the EU, in an interview with Quartz.
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Andrzej Duda, the far-right Polish leader, makes his first official White House visit today, as concerns deepen over his country's anti-democratic drift.
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I want my music, my presence, to be a permanent resistance to whatever anti-democratic feature may come out of a probable Bolsonaro government.
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Nevertheless, Madrid and Barcelona are now locked in a tit-for-tat struggle in which each side accuses the other of anti-democratic behavior.
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All funding is aimed at building resilience in the Ukrainian government against external Russian destabilization and internal threats of corruption and anti-democratic activity.
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Yet all these failures don't explain why third-generation German Turks feel loyalty and even enthusiasm for an anti-democratic hothead like Mr. Erdogan.
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Some observers wonder whether scandals surrounding Mr Bolsonaro's sons, who are given to anti-democratic rants, will bring his presidency to an early end.
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But my conviction that this is wasteful, and an anti-democratic exercise of raw power, is challenged by the existence of people like Gates.
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The law would give authorities sweeping new powers, like the ability to close down organizations that they deemed to be preaching anti-democratic extremism.
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This is something Democrats can and should resist — there are a number of different tactics for doing so — without resorting to anti-democratic moves themselves.
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In a letter to European Council President Donald Tusk late Monday, Johnson said the backstop was "anti-democratic" and called for it to be scrapped.
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What better way to shut up critics than to have the supreme court do something anti-democratic and then order it to change its mind?
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His anti-democratic views are just one element of his disturbing rhetoric, though; the new president also freely spews misogynistic, anti-LGBTQ, and racist statements.
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Both are anti-democratic authoritarians who promised to bring stability and economic prosperity and implicitly asked their people to give up their freedom in exchange.
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After all, it's an anti-democratic, anachronistic flaw in our system that has caused the will of the electorate to be abandoned five times now.
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And until we acknowledge that unthinkable truth, and treat Trump's presidency as the anti-democratic crisis that it is, he will not be the last.
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Amendment 9 "is an entirely anti-democratic measure," Gregory Conley, president of the American Vaping Association, a nonprofit advocacy group, told me on the phone.
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Ms. Grütters rejected any suggestion that the Jewish Museum had offered a platform to "enemies of Israel, or fundamentalist, anti-democratic groups," the spokeswoman added.
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Trump has previously been reluctant to criticize China over its anti-democratic crackdown and now Chinese propagandists are using his own words against the protesters.
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They argued Russia had grown more anti-democratic since it was ejected in 2014 for its incursion into Ukraine, disqualifying it from rejoining the G7.
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"The national assembly, prime minister, government, political parties and legalists are united to prevent the anti-democratic threat (from) the competing candidate's group," he said.
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But as I said above, the right answer to his fundamentally anti-democratic impulses is not to use them as a justification to cut corners.
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Several have argued that MacLean misleadingly truncates quotes, to make it seem as if Buchanan and other libertarians such as Tyler Cowen are anti-democratic.
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Chávez had exceptional circumstances and abilities, but that didn't mean he was above taking anti-democratic steps to tilt fortune even further in his favor.
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His anti-democratic views are just one element of his disturbing rhetoric, though; the president-elect also freely spews misogynistic, anti-LGBTQ, and racist statements.
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If Democrats want to be defenders of democracy above partisan interest, then their responses to Republican anti-democratic moves need to be defensible on majoritarian grounds.
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No amount of oversight over Trump will change the fact that the GOP is comfortable with anti-democratic voter ID laws and state-level power grabs.
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" The author also blasted Trump's "amorality" and "anti-democratic" actions, and accused the president of attacking conservative ideals including "free minds, free markets and free people.
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Mr Rajoy justified this "exceptional decision" by referring to the Catalan administration's "continued process of anti-democratic decisions, against the law and Spanish and European values".
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Much like the European Union, Le Professeur is often accused by the Wenger Out movement of being unaccountable, anti-democratic and even dictatorial in his approach.
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ANTI-DEMOCRATIC European leaders are prepared to talk with Britain's new leader over Brexit but have so far insisted they will not reopen the Withdrawal Agreement.
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There simply may be no safe way to deploy social networks during times of crisis or when bad actors include them in their anti-democratic playbooks.
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An independent court system is a vital democratic backstop; it can block an authoritarian leader's attempts to centralize power and even declare anti-democratic laws unconstitutional.
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Abraham Diskin, a political scientist of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, rejected the notion that the two new laws represented any kind of anti-democratic trend.
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As long as we think of our Constitution as a sacred document, instead of an outdated relic, we'll have to deal with its anti-democratic consequences.
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No Austrian president since 1945 has exercised this power, snuck into the constitution by an anti-democratic chancellor in 1929, for obvious reasons (cough, Hitler, cough).
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The problem is that even if Pinker is right, his analysis does not preclude a sustained period in which the anti-democratic right dominates American politics.
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At the time, some White House officials tried to stop the meeting, citing Mr. Orban's anti-democratic record in Hungary and his growing closeness to Russia.
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Without these two anti-democratic features of our Constitution, it is likely that, at the very least, the most aggressive partisan gerrymanders would also be forbidden.
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That is why I have been disappointed to see troubling anti-democratic developments spurred by Russian influence in the region, such as in Hungary and Poland.
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The critical distinction between Bernie Sanders and the donor-driven, suborned, anti-democratic politics he hopes to overthrow is his greatest virtue, and his strongest appeal.
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The piece rightfully condemned the President's demonization of the press and his "anti-democratic" leanings, but placed them next to concerns regarding his "anti-trade" impulses.
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Bukele has been a strong U.S. ally on issues such as immigration and a critic of "anti-democratic" regional governments, especially in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Honduras.
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Their anti-democratic motivation may not technically be racist, but as the effect of their efforts clearly is, such hairsplitting doesn't do much to redeem them.
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And, since the easing of the migration crisis, they have increasingly skirmished with the bloc over its attempts to crack down on their anti-democratic moves.
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And once it's clear that Sanders has lost the nomination, Sanders's elite anti-Democratic supporters will rally behind Jill Stein, the Green Party spoiler du jour.
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According to Srdja Pavlovic, the Montenegrin academic who coined the term "stabilitocracy", Western countries ignore local autocrats' anti-democratic practices so long as they keep the peace.
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GUTFELD: I actually think it&aposs anti-Democratic Party when you -- remember that it was Hillary that cheated Bernie out of his chance of becoming the nominee.
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They can fire Morey and apologize, which would be seen in America as putting profits ahead of free expression and caving to anti-democratic forces in China.
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And his campaign is, I think rightly, pushing superdelegates to retract their anti-democratic support for Hillary Clinton and instead side with the voters in their states.
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Poland's right-wing government, which presided over the talks, lacks both friends (alienated by, among other things, its anti-democratic attacks on judicial independence) and green credentials.
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There are many takeaways from Great Britain's decision to leave the European Union, but one of the simplest is that referendums are bad and, ironically, anti-democratic.
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Their work with the pro-Russian and anti-democratic Yanukovych contrasted sharply with McCain's support for the Orange and Euromaidan Revolutions and his visceral dislike for Putin.
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Some compared Erdoğan to former Ukaine's former President Viktor Yanukovych, whose corrupt and increasingly anti-democratic rule led to mass protests in Kiev's Maidan in 2012-2013.
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They are entertaining the anti-democratic fantasy of sweeping their Trump enablement out of memory and grabbing the country's levers of power in an unwelcome, Trumpian fashion.
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They have mobilized and are calling on U.S. officials to join their fight to denounce the anti-democratic Venezuelan regime, expose its mendacity and demand fair elections.
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Before 1989, both were anti-communist and anti-Soviet (read: anti-Russian) because Polish communist leaders were both authoritarian and anti-democratic, and seen as Kremlin puppets.
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Such arguments played into the hands of the "yes" campaigners, who consider those put-downs to be part of the anti-democratic, centrist decision-making in Rome.
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Albright, who served as chief of the State Department under former President Clinton, added that Trump's attitude and remarks towards the press also exhibited "anti-democratic" tendencies.
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Many Republicans who themselves are not breaking electoral laws or subverting democratic institutions are still condoning their party's anti-democratic bent by refusing to condemn such actions.
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As former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich explained in the 1990s, attempts to bypass elected representatives in order to "enact" regulation through litigation are inherently anti-democratic.
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In the past decade, the Russians have won loyalists to their anti-democratic, anti-Western, and anti-American ideological systems, and have only expanded their global influence.
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And it's true that there are a lot of them, from ransomware to anti-democratic "information ops" to attacks on the Wi-Fi chipset in your phone.
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But there seems to be one clear starting point: that the candidates who engaged in the most egregious anti-democratic practices not be rewarded by the governed.
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The anti-democratic tendencies of the Senate are well known: Each citizen of a small state is considered more important than each citizen of a large state.
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Even though it would be seen as anti-democratic, I think the pain and the antagonism in language and the sentiments of this divorce is more harmful.
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"He represents to many of us the very pathology of anti-democratic tendencies in ZANU-PF," said Ibbo Mandaza, an academic and businessman active in opposition politics.
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Mr. Pompeo compared WikiLeaks to "a hostile intelligence service," and said it sought support from anti-democratic countries as it targeted the United States with its disclosures.
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The dominant genre of the 21st century so far has been the superhero movie, with an ethos (and often a fan base) that is fundamentally anti-democratic.
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And that brings us to the last way that the Constitution is anti-democratic — it is almost impossible to amend it in order to remove these defects.
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I fear that there will be a GOP plan to suppress that vote and we need to be ready to fight that kind of anti-democratic activity.
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"Your letter is truly disturbing in its reckless disregard for collaboration and cooperation in favor of an anti-democratic process akin to a dictatorial regime," he added.
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Drawing on a close study of democracy's demise in 1930s Europe, the eminent political scientist Juan J. Linz designed a "litmus test" to identify anti-democratic politicians.
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Abuse of power is partly about what's being done, but a great deal of it is about the reasons — self-serving and anti-democratic — behind the actions.
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In addition to his mass-marketing of the notion that the press is the 'enemy of the people,' President Trump's impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic.
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You argued that the new reforms could "create an elected strongman", perniciously insinuating that Italians could still be prone to an anti-democratic drift, 70 years after Mussolini.
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And indeed, by the early 21st century, all populist right parties had altered their profiles, breaking ties with fascist movements and anti-democratic individuals and moving left economically.
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They aren't openly talking about being anti-democratic, even if Trump seems to have little appreciation for the role of a free press or political opposition more generally.
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"We are grateful that the court has rejected the Maduro regimes efforts to use the U.S. judiciary to advance their anti-democratic objectives," Citgo said in a statement.
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Some more centrist members, part of a "Labour First" grouping, called it an "unprincipled and anti-democratic stitch-up" aimed at stopping differences of opinion from being exposed.
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"But we can't do it as long as that anti-democratic backstop, that backstop that seeks to divide our country, divide the UK, remains in place," he said.
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Civil-liberties activists and experts balked at proposed Democratic legislation to place suspected terrorists on no-fly lists, as an anti-democratic measure that would enhance racial profiling.
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In October, hundreds of thousands of people protested in Berlin against the planned deal, saying it was anti-democratic and would lower food safety, labor and environmental standards.
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"We condemn and reject the anti-democratic and totalitarian actions of the Spanish state," he said, adding Catalans should turn out in force to vote in the Oct.
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The debates sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), a front group created by the Democratic and Republican parties to fool the American public, are anti-democratic.
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"We are grateful that the court has rejected the Maduro regime's efforts to use the U.S. judiciary to advance their anti-democratic objectives," Citgo said in a statement.
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Bernie has been right to call out what have been fairly obvious, anti-democratic biases against his campaign by the Democratic Party since the start of the race.
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But Mr. Erdogan long ago veered down an authoritarian, anti-democratic path and has often proved to be an unreliable, even dangerous ally in dealing with foreign challenges.
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We must not be afraid to approach and contend with the complexity of Islamic law and history, the good, the bad, the ugly and the viciously anti-democratic.
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Brazil's anti-democratic, corrupt elite is trying to take the country back to its pre-democratic past, when the electorate could not interfere with their choice of leaders.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The attitude of European countries toward Turkey is anti-democratic and against European values and human rights, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Monday.
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Even more importantly, with the rise of anti-democratic movements around the world, students need a strong understanding of history, civics and the liberal arts to safeguard democracy.
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Congress directed the Pentagon to allocate $60 million to the state department at the end of the Obama administration to fight anti-democratic propaganda by Russia and China.
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" In his view, the network has grown so allied with the White House in the demonization of Trump's critics that "Fox is no longer conservative—it's anti-democratic.
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An inherently anti-democratic rule in Turkey bars a political party that does not win 10 percent of the national vote from taking its seats in the parliament.
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I'm glad the companies — Walgreens and Microsoft — have spoken out, because the Wisconsin Republicans are engaged in an anti-democratic effort to undermine the results of an election.
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In addition to his mass-marketing of the notion that the press is the "enemy of the people," President Trump's impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic.
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I wanted to know why the Electoral College exists, whether it's anti-democratic by design, and if he believes there's any chance of the electors intervening this year.
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So the report isn't saying the US is becoming anti-democratic, in the sense that it's suspending civil liberties, failing to hold free elections, or anything dramatic like that.
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"Neoreactionary" refers to a relatively new, mostly online far-right ideology that has developed over the past several years, based on the concept of an anti-democratic Dark Enlightenment.
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" In August, Christopher Caldwell wrote a New York Times op-ed arguing that Thunberg's climate activism was anti-democratic because it called for immediate action, versus "waiting and seeing.
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"This is a conviction that my two vice presidents share, because neither wants to be part of a government born of an unjust and anti-democratic maneuver," Kuczynski said.
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Zsofia Nagy, a Hungarian sociologist, describes the anger she felt at the Orban government's implausible reaction to the Sargentini Report, an EU-backed analysis of its anti-democratic record.
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Whatever anti-democratic rumblings might exist among the masses, party activists and elected officials seemed to provide an adequate buffer, as preachers of and adherents to the democratic tradition.
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He asked for votes in the June 24 snap presidential and parliamentary elections, saying "anti-democratic practices" had turned Turkey into one of the most "unhappy and pessimistic" societies.
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His victory, and that of colleagues like Ron DeSantis in Florida, could send a dangerous message that they can make such anti-democratic maneuvers — and get away with it.
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His first book, he responds, was about conscription—something both democratic, because it extends warfare to the civic population, and anti-democratic, because it forces the conscript into obedience.
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This very notion is absurd and anti-democratic and violates a core belief of what the Democratic Party should stand for and how the Democratic Party should govern itself.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday it was expanding visa restrictions on individuals responsible for "anti-democratic" actions in the run-up to Cambodia's July 29 election.
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But if they continue to double down on preserving their power by any means, even as their voter base shrinks, their anti-democratic brand could become even more pronounced.
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That's right, Democrats will choose their nominee at a party insider–dominated convention instead of a normal primary, a terrible and anti-democratic idea that can still be reversed.
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"This is anti-democratic blackmail from people who consider they can beat up journalists if they disagree with the way events are covered," he said on France Info radio.
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And while it's not quite right to say that Erdoğan has changed his approach to being an autocrat, he has certainly steered into the anti-democratic skid of late.
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The candidate has quickly gained popularity, despite being a polarizing figure who has promised to "break the system" and freely spews misogynistic, anti-LGBTQ, racist, and anti-democratic views.
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This Republican attitude is more democracy-indifferent than anti-democratic, reflecting a party so caught up in partisan combat that it can't recognize the authoritarian road it's traveling down.
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He's known for his habit of spewing misogynistic, anti-LGBTQ, racist, and anti-democratic views and has promised to make Brazil safer by getting rid of so-called communists.
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Debbie Gild-Hayo, a lawyer who tracks legislation for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, a human rights group, said anti-democratic legislation has snowballed in recent years.
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Mr. Pompeo also said that South and Central American leaders were best able to lead the response against the anti-democratic actions of Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela.
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Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday had strong words for the Pakistani media, accusing journalists of penning libelous stories and anti-democratic propaganda in the name of news coverage.
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"Convulsing Brazilian society with lies, with reprehensible practices violates constitutional rights and as well as the rights of citizens," said Rousseff, who called the recording illegal and anti-democratic.
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In ICE, we have a special force, created in an anti-democratic moment in American history, authorized with police-like power and directed at political outsiders inside our borders.
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In ICE, we have a special force, created in an anti-democratic moment in American history, authorized with police-like power and directed at political outsiders inside our borders.
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Mass support for shuttering media outlets is the kind of thing you'd expect in a country the US condemns for its anti-democratic practices, not in the US itself.
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This kind of backlash against rigging the rules of elections is much rarer in the Republican Party, which has basically come to endorse anti-democratic practices on the national level.
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The process that resulted in their convictions was a travesty of justice and will cast Myanmar as an anti-democratic pariah as long as they are wrongfully held behind bars.
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In reports on Moldbug, several outlets have suggested that the company is backed by Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist and Trump adviser who himself has occasionally floated anti-democratic views.
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At the demonstration, dubbed the "Republic and Democracy Rally," opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu told the thousands-strong crowd that the country's reaction was a powerful rejection of anti-democratic forces.
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Using a simulation-based analysis, we estimate that social intolerance increases the odds of an anti-democratic orientation by an average of about 10 percent across the three dependent variables.
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And they saw it as an anti-democratic attempt to seize control over Britain's economic policy from the people and place it in the hands of neoliberal bureaucrats in Brussels.
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But ending his five minutes of allotted question time with the Google CEO, Cicilline said concern about technologists working with anti-democratic regimes "goes beyond Google — and frankly beyond China".
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It also requires us to confront the failures of elite policy that have led to an erosion of democratic norms, primarily public trust, that make anti-democratic alternatives suddenly acceptable.
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Cesar Soyac Jr., the man suspected of sending explosives in the mail over the past week, regularly posted slews of pro-Trump and anti-Democratic content on social media channels.
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Labowitz, the co-director of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, believes Exxon's approach is anti-democratic and threatens to have a chilling effect on environmental activism.
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It isn&apost simply about a handful of companies operating according to an economic logic that compels them to behaviors that are anti-democratic and take aim at human autonomy.
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Read more " _____ • Anne Applebaum in The Washington Post: "In giving such a speech in such a place, Trump has confirmed Poland's nationalist government in its isolationist and anti-democratic course.
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All of these leaders have taken various steps to consolidate power, in some cases by seeking anti-democratic constitutional reforms but also by arresting or even killing dissidents and opponents.
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Antifederalists "charged the Framers with seeking to establish an aristocracy of sorts," objecting to such anti-democratic elements as the Electoral College and Supreme Court appointments—complaints that resonate today.
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Orbán values his country's membership in the European Union and NATO; leading countries in those organizations could apply real pressure on his government to curb its worst anti-democratic excesses.
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"I would very much prefer to leave with a deal – one that must abolish the anti-democratic Irish backstop, which has unacceptable consequences for our country," Johnson said in the email.
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While there's no evidence that an overtly neo-Nazi party could make a comeback in Germany, polling shows a surprisingly large minority receptive to anti-democratic and anti-immigrant campaign messages.
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The links between his ascendance and the anti-immigrant wave of Brexit, the anti-democratic rule of Viktor Orbán in Hungary, and Law and Justice in Poland, are clear to see.
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Clinton quotes a line about anti-democratic leaders who sow distrust of facts from Yale history professor Timothy Snyder's 2017 bestseller about lessons that can be learned from past totalitarian regimes.
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"We are deeply concerned that, absent a strong U.S. response, the current government's pattern of anti-democratic behavior will continue to escalate, and that Guatemala will descend into lawlessness," they wrote.
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The bottom line is this: The forces of authoritarianism are collecting in the Republican Party, and the chaos-and-threat rhetorical politics of Trumpism are key correlates of anti-democratic attitudes.
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But this anti-Democratic and anti-liberal philosophy has been updated today to account for an unpopular Republican president: Whatever you dislike about Trump, rest assured his opponents are far worse.
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According to the continuing chorus of critics, the divergence of the popular vote and the Electoral College vote in 2016 proves conclusively that the Electoral College is an anti-democratic anachronism.
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"If you look into publications that are close to the Burschenschaften and supported by the FPÖ, you will find a lot of anti-democratic, racist and anti-Semitic ideology," said Pollak.
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This sort of thing is not new in American history, and even recent American history, but the severity and scope of Republican anti-democratic behavior in 2018 represents a serious escalation.
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Younger and more unabashedly anti-democratic than Netanyahu's cohort of Likudniks, they do not feel the need to pay lip service to the idea of the occupation as a temporary necessity.
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These laws masquerade as common-sense measures, but they are in truth anti-democratic shams, and it is gratifying to see them unravel in the harsh light of a federal courtroom.
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It's far too early to say how the memo fight will ultimately be resolved — though in the past, American institutions have stood up pretty well against Trump's more anti-democratic impulses.
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What's happening in Wisconsin and Michigan is only the latest manifestation of a broader anti-democratic trend, which in the past decade or so has become part of the party's identity.
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Meanwhile, the federal GOP has engaged in its own forms of anti-democratic politics, the most infamous example being Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's blockade of Merrick Garland's Supreme Court nomination.
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If Trump fails, it won't be because he was too illiberal or too anti-democratic but because he self-sabotaged, because he was too incompetent to execute his half-baked vision.
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Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan, who has strengthened economic and political ties with Caracas, called Maduro last month to urge him to stand tall against what he described as "anti-democratic developments".
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One of Miller and Davis's most striking findings is that among socially intolerant whites, education heightens hostility to immigrants and fails to moderate the anti-democratic orientation of these white Americans.
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If that demographic — which has now become an intense, all-encompassing political identity — is to maintain its traditional hold on power, it can only do so through increasingly anti-democratic means.
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Government funding bills are no place for anti-democratic measures like these that are designed to keep corporate and billionaire money secret and allow more of it into the political process.
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Since Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are not Israeli citizens and cannot vote for candidates for Israel's Parliament, or Knesset, critics of the legislation say it is inherently anti-democratic.
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Warsaw has pulled at the fabric of the European Union as it has pursued a series of anti-democratic steps, silencing independent media, politicizing security services and undermining the judicial system.
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The failure of Republican members of Congress to resist the anti-democratic behavior of President Trump — including holding not a single hearing on his and his team's kleptocracy — is cringe-worthy.
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Critics questioned the wisdom of Trump's visit given the Polish government's increasingly anti-democratic practices, which include clamping down on state media and moving to restrict the right to democratic assembly.
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Although still broadly popular, Duterte has faced rising criticism as the death toll continues to rise, including public protests on Thursday against the brutality and anti-democratic tendencies of his regime.
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Conversely, a Republican win could reinforce the idea that white identity politics works and that a party can pursue voter suppression and other anti-democratic moves and be rewarded for it.
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What might our country look like if we were to surrender policy-making to the anti-democratic forces of campaign donation-obsessed politicians, rent-seeking special interests and behemoth oligopolistic-minded corporations?
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Instead of only focusing on the spread of anti-LGBTQ sentiment or anti-democratic sentiment or whatever, a systemic view lets you see how different issues can come from the same place.
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Both parties already enact restrictions on who may run, and even the constitution includes some anti-democratic requirements, such as the need to be 35 years or older to run for president.
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We must acknowledge, as well, that anti-democratic measures will often be welcomed by some of the people, some of the time—especially when those measures are deemed to favour their own.
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Thiel also funded the wrestler Hulk Hogan's successful lawsuit against the gossip site Gawker (which was later forced to close), a move viewed by many as anti-democratic by many in tech.
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"In public debates in Washington, London, Berlin, Paris, and Warsaw, we hear anti-democratic slogans more and more, calling for national egoism, isolationism," said Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council.
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Some of his followers came to accept democracy as part of all stages of the process; but critics held that most Islamists were at heart anti-democratic and continue so to be.
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"This coup has a leader, and it is not the interim president," Rousseff told The Intercept, in her first interview since being impeached — a process she has long insisted is anti-democratic.
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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson cautioned the European Union on Saturday that the "anti-democratic" Irish backstop must be ditched if they were to strike a Brexit divorce deal.
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As president, Trump has continued to show worrisome anti-democratic instincts, as in his continued lambasting of the judiciary and calls for changes in libel laws to curtain freedom of the press.
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These efforts are aided by a Supreme Court that alternatively refuses to intervene against anti-democratic measures, or actively abets their spread by gutting measures like the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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It seems more likely that the GOP's anti-democratic tactics will have to be defeated either through hard-fought electoral wins by Democrats or court rulings that reject gerrymandered maps—or both.
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The existing winner-take-all system, which awards all of a state's electoral votes to the popular-vote winner in that state, no matter how close the race, is deeply anti-democratic.
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The oppositions in other democratic countries that have faced the rise of populists with authoritarian instincts and norm-busting behaviors often struggle in the face anti-democratic leaders elected through democratic means.
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However, this is merely the latest, most extreme version of a larger anti-democratic trend in which tech firms like Google and Facebook have put shareholder rights behind the autonomy of the founders.
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A video released on Twitter showed Basak and other family members listening to Demirtas joke about the odd campaigning method and later call for votes to help end "anti-democratic" practices in Turkey.
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Obama-Trump voters had among the highest levels of anti-democratic sentiments, as did voters who went from not voting for a major-party candidate in 2012 to voting for Trump in 2015.
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But if the grand story of modern Western politics is the struggle to preserve liberal democracy in the face of rising anti-democratic forces, this past week was actually a pretty good one.
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An anti-democratic action by the president was met with alarm by the public and elected officials, which blocked Trump's power grab and led to continued (arguably increased) oversight into potential executive wrongdoing.
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Sayoc regularly posted pro-Trump and anti-Democratic content on social media channels and was taken into custody on Friday with a van that had a number of pro-Trump stickers and decals.
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Our first topic is populism, which, depending on who you ask, is either a dangerous, anti-democratic movement sweeping the globe or the force that's going to reclaim power for millions of citizens.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - A top Kenyan newspaper published a fake death notice of a prominent opposition financier on Wednesday, a bizarre error that rights groups interpreted as another sign of an anti-democratic slide.
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In fact, following Trump's disappearing act from the last Iowa debate, anyone watching CNN or MSNBC would've concluded nothing other than that they considered his anti-democratic, misogynistic actions a brilliant political strategy.
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The only people who benefit if liberals walk away are the anti-democratic and ethno-nationalist forces who threaten liberalism and democracy in the United States, in Israel, and all across the globe.
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Although scores of dissidents have been detained during Maduro's four-year rule and the National Assembly stripped of power anyway in practice, the court's move was arguably the most explicitly anti-democratic measure.
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In 2014, Arizona Senator John McCain called Orbán "a neofascist dictator getting in bed with Vladimir Putin" and accused him of "practicing the same kinds of anti-democratic practices" as the Russian president.
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" Asked if she thought the British people could've changed their minds about Brexit since the initial vote, she said people have become more aware of just how "anti-democratic the European Union is.
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Students will evaluate what they think are the essential components of a healthy democracy and how to protect it from anti-democratic forces, even when its citizens aren't aware of what's going on.
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Salvini has emerged in a different context to Berlusconi, one where anti-democratic, illiberal, racist forces are on the rise in Europe and beyond, encouraged by the moral abdication of Trump's United States.
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Joe WalshJoe WalshTrump allies to barnstorm Iowa for caucuses Republican group calls for 'President Pence' amid impeachment trial Walsh plans protest at RNC headquarters over 'nakedly anti-Democratic' primary cancellations MORE (R-Ill.).
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In addition, the United States Congress is considering legislation that would make it more difficult for Nicaragua to get loans from multilateral financial institutions if Mr. Ortega continues on his anti-democratic path.
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Years ago, Cas Mudde, a leading scholar of populism, warned about using the politics of fear to stigmatize euro-skeptic leaders and their voters — and to justify anti-democratic measures to counter them.
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By extending multibillion-dollar, unconditional loans, the argument goes, Chinese corporations are entrenching corrupt and anti-democratic African leaders who enjoy the political capital that comes from inaugurating new railways, roads and hospitals.
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Johnson said on Tuesday that the backstop - an insurance policy to keep the Irish border open after Britain leaves the European Union - was "anti-democratic", and demanded its removal from the stalled divorce deal.
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It's not a thing of the past, and is currently used by the authoritarian backsliders (Orban, the Law and Justice party, Erdoğan) that people who worry about Trump's anti-democratic tendencies compare him to.
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But note that the highest rate of anti-democratic sentiments came from those in the "off" dimensions, individuals who hold mixes of views that neither party represents, or those who fell in the middle.
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Of course, it's important to note that the decidedly anti-democratic and barely accountable Commission on Presidential Debates keeps these town-hall affairs from being a real exchange between random voters and the candidates.
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Redemption was the term used by white-supremacist Democrats in the 1870s to refer to the reversal of Reconstruction, a process that was perhaps the most violent and anti-democratic campaign in American history.
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Within hours of the National Election Committee (NEC) announcement, the United States said it was expanding visa restrictions on individuals responsible for "anti-democratic" actions in the run-up to the July 29 vote.
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And in that context, it's decidedly anti-democratic to dance on an industry's grave instead of giving its representatives a seat at the table while it still produces crucially needed goods, services and jobs.
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In terms of anti-democratic activity, there is no meaningful distinction between stealing a Supreme Court seat, writing a health care bill in secret, preventing minorities from voting, and Trump attacking the free press.
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That spirit still lies at the heart of European integration, and it is our best remedy for the anti-democratic and destructive forces of nationalism that have caused so much harm in the past.
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His amorality and anti-democratic impulses clearly appealed to the GOP electorate, and any accounting of his presidency (especially one coming from inside the administration) should at least try to grapple with that fact.
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That's technically possible if enough electors ignore the will of the voters who directed them to vote for Trump—but again, it seems like an awful, anti-democratic precedent, and is super, super unlikely.
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The White House questioned the political wisdom of installing her in Mr. Cochran's seat — and that was before Ms. Hyde-Smith drew sustained scorn for comments that were criticized as racist or anti-democratic.
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The risk is that the exigencies of coronavirus allow these leaders to accumulate even more power — and for observers to excuse away their anti-democratic ways as necessary to respond to a global crisis.
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Rightly or wrongly, memories have been activated of historical traumas linked with anti-democratic politics, such as the emergence of fascism in interwar Europe and the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.
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That practice lasted until Andrew Jackson campaigned against "King Caucus," calling the method anti-democratic, and said that the people needed to have a more direct role in the choice of the party nominee.
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For all his later elephant-shooting foibles, Juan Carlos of Spain laid the foundations of Spanish democracy in the late 1970s and played a crucial role in ending an anti-democratic attempted coup in 1981.
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The face of anti-democratic rule in America is President George W. Bush appointing Supreme Court justices who handed down a Citizens United ruling whose substance would have been far too unpopular to enact legislatively.
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The first risk is that we're bringing more people with anti-democratic views into the electorate, which further increases the electoral power of an anti-system populist candidate who promises to blow it all up.
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The past week has shown that in both the United States and Israel, key parts of the democratic systems are functioning in exactly the way they're supposed to — as antibodies targeting an anti-democratic infection.
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But beyond this, the agreement had troubling, anti-democratic implications: Party officials struck this agreement with the Clinton campaign in August 2015, mere months after she and Sanders declared their candidacies for the party's nomination.
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With its funny name (actually derived from the Dutch for "freebooter," or pirate), and its apparently anti-democratic super-majority, the filibuster is often seen as a strange and unneeded vestigial artifact of earlier times.
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The Yellow Vests on the Champs-Élysées are cousins of the British who voted for Brexit, the Americans who voted for Donald Trump, and the Poles, Hungarians and Italians who elected populist, anti-democratic governments.
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DARGIS True, except that much of what you've described — the individual hero, the anti-democratic spirit and the failed, at times corrupt government institutions — have given us some of the greatest American movies ever made.
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At least one of these fake accounts, labeled "Vets for Trump," has been spreading disinformation in the lead-up to the 2020 election with the goal of spreading pro-Trump and anti-Democratic candidate messages.
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He did not hold back on what he hoped Australia could affect: Dr. FitzGerald explicitly criticized China's anti-democratic tendencies, calling out the way it seeks to influence Australian politics through investments and campaign contributions.
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There's this huge apparatus whose job it is to every day carry a pro-Trump message and an anti-Democratic message and to shape the conversation in politics and on social media about national affairs.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Britain's departure from the European Union may be mired in turmoil but a second referendum would be anti-democratic, said Nathalie Loiseau, a former French minister now spearheading President Emmanuel Macron's European election campaign.
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The Facebook task force, chaired by COO Sheryl Sandberg, follows pressure from civil rights groups and minorities who say the company has not done enough to combat anti-democratic tactics such as voter intimidation and suppression.
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Vietnam Convicts Second Person This Week for Anti-Government Facebook Posts Melanie Ehrenkranz has news on an anti-democratic trend in Vietnam: The conviction is reflective of Vietnam's efforts to repress speech critical of the government.
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Looking to these recent examples suggests that the US Constitution may be good at checking coups or the anti-democratic deployment of emergency powers, but it isn't well-suited to stall the slow decay of democracy.
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Boris Johnson has repeatedly promised to try and remove the backstop, a measure designed to ensure that no new border checks emerge on the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, claiming that it is anti-democratic.
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Republican and Democratic voters should both be able to agree that this anti-democratic system—one that promotes minority rule determined by a random set of swing states—has no place in the twenty-first century.
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But his track record of fiery anti-democratic rhetoric, calls for police to kill as many criminals as possible and offensive comments on women and minorities have alarmed former presidents and observers across the political spectrum.
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This is surely a valid argument, not least because Mr. McConnell's blatantly anti-democratic ploy stole a judicial appointment from a popularly elected president and gave it to one who lost the popular vote by millions.
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Although parties compete by design, they also play a stabilizing role, weeding out candidates with anti-democratic or extreme views, for instance, and ensuring that legislators' individual interests don't crowd out the state's ability to govern.
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Joe WalshJoe WalshTrump allies to barnstorm Iowa for caucuses Republican group calls for 'President Pence' amid impeachment trial Walsh plans protest at RNC headquarters over 'nakedly anti-Democratic' primary cancellations MORE (Ill.) and former Massachusetts Gov.
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In the final days of the Obama administration, Congress told the Pentagon to give $60 million to the State Department so it could coordinate efforts to fight Russian and Chinese "anti-democratic propaganda," the Times reported.
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Wine is anti-democratic in the sense that, all other things being equal, aristocratic terroirs will win out, even if, like the wayward child of a billionaire, bad farming and winemaking squander this built-in advantage.
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These proindividual, anticommunity ideologies have been central to the anti-democratic, anti-affirmative-action, antiwelfare, antichoice, and antirace discourses that place culpability for individual failure on moral failings of the individual, not policy decisions and social systems.
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The charge is that impeaching and removing an elected president is illegitimate because it is anti-democratic — because the person the voters (or, at least in this case, the Electoral College) chose ends up out of office.
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Yet the severity of our concerns, particularly in light of XR's anti-democratic structure, means that we do not believe it is worthwhile seeking to reform XR from within (as some of us have attempted to do).
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She said expanded visa restrictions may apply to individuals inside and outside the government "responsible for the most notable anti-democratic actions" in the run-up to the election and in certain circumstances to their immediate relatives.
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Trump's single best move for the future will be to tone down the anti-Democratic antagonism by staging meaningful blue-state visits and policy speeches aimed at core Democratic constituencies, including women, blacks, Latinos, and young people.
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While the revolution in France was doomed to set off an era of anti-democratic reaction throughout Europe, the ethic of reciprocity was also undermined in the nineteenth century by an intensification of individual and particular interests.
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As Trump makes a mockery of his office, he has left America to drift in two fundamentally anti-democratic directions, with the military exercising ever greater power as neo-Nazi street protesters form militias of their own.
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This exclusionary and anti-democratic concept is termed "conflict of interest," even though it has no relation to more traditional due diligence and other principles of open and transparent policy development practiced by countries around the world.
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Neale Richmond, the party's spokesman on European affairs, said Johnson's description of the backstop as "anti-democratic" was "new found spin," tweeting that Johnson had voted for it as part of the withdrawal agreement earlier this year.
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Venezuela continues to slide into anarchy, relations with Russia are worsening, governments in Pakistan, Turkey and across Eastern Europe are increasingly anti-democratic, and China's influence in Latin America, Africa, South Asia and elsewhere continues to blossom.
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Hennessey said the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act could also form a potential basis for a prosecution against Trump aides who the report alleges knew about and collaborated with the Russian government on anti-Democratic hacking operations.
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Grassroots movements, such as Moral Mondays in North Carolina, have worked to show how state legislatures have utilized the post-Shelby landscape to ensure anti-democratic majorities at the expense of genuine democracy and active voter participation.
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The ostensible subject was Russia, which Mr. Orban, a xenophobic, anti-democratic nationalist with a cruel anti-refugee agenda, is desperately courting and which many of his political opponents consider a dark cloud over their country's future.
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And while they may not be explicitly aligned with each other in a unified anti-democratic front, they are unlikely to join in any kind of action by other Western states to challenge each others' authoritarian actions.
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The delivery of accurate news able to shine the disinfecting sunlight of real facts and relevant information on vital political issues was a first line of defense against anti-democratic demagoguery, disinformation, character assassination, and outright lies.
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But while Gill and Benisek were a disappointment for people who hoped the justices would do something to police the anti-democratic practice of politicians choosing their voters, rather than the other way around, they were no disaster.
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Above all, in spite of the reports of political chaos—and yes, even stupidity—that daily flood our inboxes and Twitter feeds, we must resist the call of the elites and the tug of the anti-democratic urge.
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Record numbers of Turkish expats voted in the referendum, and Turkish groups in Germany have expressed concerns over Turkish Germans voting in large numbers to approve the reforms, saying that it represents anti-democratic sentiments among German Turks.
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Surge in North Koreans slipping into Thailand - immigration Venezuelan security officials seized two opposition leaders from their homes in overnight raids, their families said, after they urged protests against a new legislative superbody widely denounced as anti-democratic.
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"Democracy in Chains," combined with the Jane Mayer's seminal book "Dark Money," expose the anti-democratic goals and stealth means of the ultrarich working to make sure that government works only for the rich, not for the majority.
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The UK prime minister has repeatedly promised to try and remove the backstop, a measure designed to ensure that no new border checks emerge on the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, claiming that it is anti-democratic.
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"She supports the legislation in Congress to help Puerto Rico, although, like myself, with serious objections to the anti-democratic parts of the measure that would impose a fiscal control board," Padilla said of Clinton in his statement.
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STRASBOURG (Reuters) - It would not be "anti-democratic" for Britons to reverse their Brexit vote in a second referendum, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said at the European Parliament on Wednesday, but he denied working to promote one.
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The president also proposed raising the agreed upon military spending to 4 percent of gross domestic product, as he publicly slammed an alliance that the United States created to protect Western democracies against anti-democratic actors, like Russia.
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The place to start with this dilemma is how we think about free speech and the marketplace of ideas — necessities for a free society that pose a real dilemma when it comes to dealing with anti-democratic ideas.
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What was once a conservative assumption dismissed as extremism by the bien-pensants — that the Supreme Court is a highly ideological institution defined by partisan bias and anti-democratic overreach — is now a commonplace liberal belief as well.
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They say they became involved in Brexit politics because they worried that the European Union was a fundamentally anti-democratic project, determined to hand power to unelected elites and reduce Parliament to the status of a borough council.
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But leaders critical of his push pointed out that Russia had become even more anti-democratic since being ousted from the group -- which unites the world's most powerful market economies which are also democracies and respect Western values.
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The Supreme Court issued a ruling that Netanyahu must allow parliament to reconvene by Wednesday; in response, the opposition leader struck a deal with Netanyahu to serve in his government, inexplicably handing a victory to anti-democratic implacability.
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Will they commit themselves and their party wholly to Mr. Trump, embracing even his most anti-democratic actions, or will they take the first step toward separating themselves from him and restoring confidence in the rule of law?
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TALLINN (Reuters) - European Union states will this month debate increasing pressure on Poland to uphold the rule of law, sources said, as the next stage in a process that could see its government formally denounced as anti-democratic.
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The bill had bipartisan support, as similar measures have had around the country — an encouraging sign that people of all political stripes are beginning to see felon-disenfranchisement laws for the racist, pointless, anti-democratic shams they are.
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Sanders still peppers his foreign-policy remarks with a long recitation of America's anti-democratic history, especially in Latin America and the Middle East, during the Cold War, and the worst mistakes of the post-9/11 era.
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Earlier in the day, Vizcarra scheduled new legislative elections for January 26 to end a yearlong feud with the current Congress, accusing the rightwing opposition of using anti-democratic tactics to block his efforts to stamp out corruption.
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The 2013 verdicts continue to strain U.S.-Egyptian relations, owing in part to the issue's salience in Congress, where many view Case 173 as an anti-democratic travesty and an anti-American affront from an ostensibly close ally.
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These are questions on which fortunes are made and lives are lost, and not only does normal politics offer Republicans a compelling reason to back Trump's regime, it legitimizes fundamentally anti-democratic stances that keep them in office.
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Recent public opinion surveys suggest that even many of the Poles who oppose the new, right-wing government's takeover of the Constitutional Tribunal — a dangerous, anti-democratic move — refuse to endorse possible sanctions by the European Union against Poland.
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In its place, you get the "send her back" theory of law: the notion that the purpose of holding legal power is to defeat your enemies, an anti-democratic theory that has been encouraged at Trump rallies for years.
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Trump's anti-democratic rhetoric—and the eagerness of so many good, white patriotic Americans to cheer it and believe it—is a symptom of the larger trend on the political right toward doubting the legitimacy of the American system.
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The more Trump and fellow Republicans stoke fears of immigration, of Muslims, of crime and drugs and "American carnage," and the more they disparage elites and experts, the more they are increasing attitudes that correlate to anti-democratic views.
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" And now we have a new critique, which is more from the left politically, from folks like Anand and others, which is, "No, actually, philanthropy is just an anti-democratic force or a ruse to distract from evil-doing.
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To Islamists, its fundamental purpose is to crush religion; for liberals, it's anti-democratic; for Kurds, it's fanatically nationalist and anti-Kurdish; for nationalists, it's secretly in league with the US; for anti-Semites, it's an Israeli-backed scheme.
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This is anti-democratic rhetoric: When conservatives frame gun violence in terms of spiritual warfare, pitting humans against supernatural powers and principalities, they suggest that there are only spiritual solutions to the problem and that legislative reforms are useless.
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The Obama administration viewed Orbán's demonization of refugees as part of a larger anti-democratic campaign to silence political opposition, stifle the free press, erode the independence of the judiciary, and scapegoat supposed outsiders as conspirators against Hungary's sovereignty.
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But I'm no fortuneteller: I asserted that the Olympics were already a public calamity for many citizens, especially for those affected by the evictions, by police brutality and by the anti-democratic shakedown of an unequal and segregated city.
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In an address at Georgetown Law School, Conway, who is an attorney, warned that Trump's statements suggesting that top current and former Justice Department officials should be jailed for their role in the special counsel investigation were anti-democratic.
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So much attention has been paid to Trump's norm-shattering behavior, which has been criticized by Republicans as well as Democrats, that there's a risk of ignoring the GOP's anti-democratic instincts, which run far deeper than one man.
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The lack of public input and oversight in developing the drones program "reflects a dangerous anti-democratic pattern of the de Blasio administration and the N.Y.P.D. that disregards the perspectives of communities most impacted by police abuses," she added.
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Rafal Pankowski, a sociologist at Warsaw's Collegium Civitas university and an expert on the Polish far right, said it's become difficult to distinguish between the mainstream conservative right and what he calls the "anti-democratic, radically xenophobic" far right.
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" The brief from current and former House members noted that Mr. Reagan had referred to gerrymandering in 1987 as "a national scandal" and called for "an end to the anti-democratic and un-American practice of gerrymandering congressional districts.
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Not all technologically advanced nations have vibrant grass-roots political engagement, and in many countries, devices and software are being abused — used for surveillance or to manipulate information, while anti-democratic extremists spread their views on the same platforms.
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Outside Poland, Law and Justice has earned harsh criticism for asserting control over the judiciary in ways some fellow European Union members say is anti-democratic, and for its antipathy toward immigration and environmental policies to combat climate change.
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There is only one model of story — what each side says, in equal measure — and it only serves to blur and obscure a situation in which one party, not the other, has lurched in a radically anti-democratic direction.
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Similarly, today's GOP must rely on anti-democratic methods to cling to power in a changing America, and prop up a President who will most certainly stay in office through malfeasance, playing to xenophobic fear and threats of violence.
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In a letter to European Council President Donald Tusk, Johnson said that the backstop - an insurance policy to keep the Irish border open after Britain leaves the European Union - was "anti-democratic", and demanded its removal from the stalled divorce deal.
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The fact that close to half the country's registered voters chose the CNRP in last year's commune elections is itself a sign of the public's desire for an alternative to the government's opaque, corrupt, and anti-democratic style of rule.
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But a rump caucus of his supporters continue to insist that her win was illegitimate: that it was engineered by a biased Democratic National Committee, or secured thanks to the anti-democratic actions of superdelegates before the primary campaign started.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Members of Labour's top policy team are angry over a decision by their party in the European Parliament to support a new Commission president, questioning an "anti-democratic" move that elected what they called a right-wing candidate.
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But that only underscores the public school's historic role in the fight for equality—as well as the anti-democratic nature of the campaign to privatize public education, whether it's in the form of vouchers or starving educators of funds.
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But if we want to build on these victories into 2020 and beyond; if we want to save our republic from the anti-democratic assaults of the Trump administration; then we must do more than just build fleeting electoral majorities.
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But retreat is often derided by government officials as an anti-democratic and impractical, if not cowardly, approach in the fight against climate change, removing citizens, and the taxes they pay, from communities they say they can protect from rising seas.
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But Bolsonaro's fiery anti-democratic rhetoric of the past, his stance that Brazil's already notoriously violent police should kill as many criminals as possible, and his desire to rollback progressives' gains in recent years have enraged a large number of voters.
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First, it makes sense to continue expressing our displeasure with Maduro's anti-democratic behavior by sanctioning economic engagement with the government, but primarily by targeting government leaders engaged in objectionable activities, rather than measures that hurt the already reeling population.
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It isn't anti-democratic in the sense that it favors authoritarianism; what it rejects is the idea that American democracy can still work at all—that a vast, multicultural nation can resolve differences and tackle problems through compromise and consensus.
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Corbyn on Thursday wrote to Mark Sedwill, the cabinet secretary, accusing the prime minister of planning an "unprecedented, unconstitutional and anti-democratic abuse of power," after it was reported that Johnson could hold a general election the day after Brexit.
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Corbyn wrote to Mark Sedwill, the cabinet secretary, on Thursday, accusing the prime minister of planning an "unprecedented, unconstitutional and anti-democratic abuse of power," after it was reported that Johnson could hold a general election the day after Brexit.
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The author, who is only identified as "a senior official" in the Trump administration, claimed there is resistance within the White House by otherwise loyal Republicans to what they see as Trump's "amorality" and "anti-trade and anti-democratic" impulses.
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That's why anti-democratic rulers have always "tested" allies, the public and the media as they consolidate their power, saying things that "push the envelope" against democratic norms to the point of raising the idea of extralegal or irregular action.
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And while the 2018 election has proven that America is not even close to this far gone — most projections suggest Democrats will retake the House — there's a risk that this Republican anti-democratic behavior will escalate if it proves successful.
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Scarred by memories of the collapse of democracy in the 1930s amid the rise of Adolf Hitler's Nazis, Germany has some of the strictest laws on political extremism in the world, with rules allowing the banning of anti-democratic parties.
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"With Bilawal in the frontline of our campaign we hope to see a huge swathe of young people join us in our journey to turn back the tide of extremism, misgovernance and anti-democratic trends," PPP Senator Sherry Rehman told Reuters.
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He described the backstop — which seeks to avoid border checks between Northern Ireland and Ireland after Brexit — as "anti-democratic and inconsistent with the sovereignty of the UK" because it could keep the UK bound in the EU's customs union.
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He's taking what I would describe as an illegitimate, anti-democratic shortcut by trying to purchase DA elections, and then once the DA is in place, he or she doesn't enforce the law — and, presto, you have criminal justice reform.
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And while the 2018 election has proven that America is not even close to this far gone — Democrats won about 40 seats in the House — there's a risk that this Republican anti-democratic behavior will escalate if it proves successful.
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"Johnson and his allies seem to believe that they could frame a snap election as a choice between the 'people' and an anti-democratic political class," said Kallum Pickering, a senior economist at Berenberg, in a research note to clients.
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Iowa makes it needlessly difficult to vote, and that needless difficulty disenfranchises parents, low-income people, people without control over their job schedules, and pretty much anyone who isn't determined enough to sacrifice hours to an arcane and anti-democratic process.
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And that should make the stakes of the 2020 election clear: whether we as a nation are going to allow this anti-democratic rot to spread, or whether we put a stop to it with the democratic means at our disposal.
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Germany's domestic intelligence agency, known as the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, was set up in the wake of World War II with the explicit aim of preventing the rise of anti-democratic forces like another Nazi party.
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He is expected to use Mr. Mattarella's attempted appointment of a technocratic — if temporary — prime minister to reinforce the League's anti-elitist message and portray himself as standing up against anti-democratic forces beholden to Brussels, Berlin and the bankers.
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Partisanship, ideology, and personal ambition are all inclined to unite Israel's broader political right behind a comprehensively anti-democratic politics: restricting minority rights, demolishing institutional checks on the prime minister's power, and muzzling critical voices in the media and civil society.
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In July, the Ministry of Education agreed to promote the use of Creole in all levels of the school system; this could be a key component of the country's struggle to escape from school failures, chronic impoverishment, and anti-democratic rule.
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In winning his second term, he fought off a challenge from Prabowo Subianto — a former general who has touted his strongman, anti-democratic appeal and has allegedly overseen widespread rights abuses — only to turn around and appoint him defense minister.
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It's been shocking and heartbreaking to see the Republican Party allow this President to indulge his most anti-democratic impulses, concentrating power in an unstable executive and putting their own access to money and influence ahead of the good of country.
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On top of some highly unusual behavior, comments that have undermined America's relationships with its allies around the globe, and some explicitly anti-democratic sentiments, President Trump is engaging in a number of activities that could certainly be considered impeachable offenses.
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While the statements during impeachment and the lock-step way the Republicans follow Mr. Trump might look like the temporary aberration of a party in the grip of a cult of personality, the roots of this anti-democratic impulse are much deeper.
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When these kinds of conflicts occur, many of us are likely to hold rather strong views about what democracy "really" means, and are likely to think that one or another participant in the conflicts is anti-democratic (according to our own beliefs).
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Meanwhile, the victory of Ron DeSantis in Florida and the likely victory of Brian Kemp in Georgia reinforce the idea that white identity politics works and that a party can pursue voter suppression and other anti-democratic moves and be rewarded for it.
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Under Donald Trump, the GOP will be led by the most anti-democratic presidential candidate in contemporary American history, whose cabinet is staffed by a frightening number of plutocrats and generals and whose chief strategist's political philosophy is frighteningly similar to national socialism.
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In the nineteen-fifties, as Stephen E. Kercher details in his definitive history " Revel with a Cause: Liberal Satire in Postwar America ," political cartoonists saw themselves as defenders of free expression and civil rights in the face of an anti-democratic witch hunt.
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The party - mindful of the penalties including a full ban it could face if it were found to be unconstitutional or anti-democratic by the domestic security services, has set up a working group to try to ward off the threat of observation.
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The writings of the founding era are replete with warnings of this fact: Despite what many of today's activists would have us believe, the anti-democratic institutions of the American Republic are just as vital now as they were over 85033 years ago.
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The stakes, many believe, far outweigh those of Britain's exit from the European Union, or Brexit, as the bloc faces a painful reckoning over whether, despite its efforts at discipline, it has enabled the anti-democratic drift, and what to do about it.
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"The Kremlin has empowered and amplified other venal and anti-democratic actors to grow their influence in Europe, creating a snowball effect for its anti-Western agenda," a European Union task force said in one of its recent summaries of Russian disinformation.
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But Mr. Haldenwang said his agency, which has been gathering 1,069 pages of material from speeches, Facebook pages and reports from regional intelligence offices since last spring, had numerous indications that at least parts of the party harbored revisionist and anti-democratic views.
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The unyielding Times reporter — who had been expelled from Nigeria by anti-democratic forces just two years earlier — was determined to stay in his post this time, and to tell the world about the oppression that was unfolding in the Soviet-bloc nation.
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"Tyrants or anti-democratic governments don't like people to be too aware of things, too cultivated, too educated," said Jenart of how the Nazi party's disapproval of the Mundaneum ties to the disinformation and withholding of information campaigns happening around the world today.
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There is reason to thank this largely unnamed axis of adults inside the administration for minimizing the damage to transcendent national interests in a time when we have elected a President with -- in the words of the Times piece's author -- "anti-democratic" impulses.
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The Republican Party, like Southern slaveholders of yore, is rapidly becoming an anti-democratic force willing to sacrifice the country, democratic institutions and the sanctity of the electoral process to protect its political power and enact its reactionary political and economic agenda.
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Inside the party, though, political advisers think it's likelier than not that most marginal voters (Obama voters who skipped the midterms) and sporadic voters (those who are harder to persuade) have had at least some exposure to an anti–Democratic Party message.
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The new anti-Democratic groups want to appeal to black Americans with a populist message rooted in ethnic, cultural, and economic identity they say is untethered to the "Democratic plantation" mentality, a political trope first used by black Republicans in the 1960s.
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They go onto say will they commit themselves and their party wholly to president trump, embracing even his post anti-democratic actions, or will they take the first step towards separating themselves from him and restoring confidence in the rule of law?
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Most ominously, following Gore's popular vote victory and Electoral College defeat in 2000, and now Hilary Clinton's substantial popular victory (by nearly 3 million votes) combined with an Electoral College defeat, anti-democratic presidential outcomes should no longer be seen as freakish events.
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Yael Eisenstat, who once led Facebook's elections Integrity operations team for political advertising, tweeted: FINALLY, a CEO willing to admit this is not about free speech, it is about profiting off of amplifying lies and the dangerous targeting tools that allow this anti-democratic b.s.
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The term to know here is "deep state," or devin devlet, a term coined in the 1970s to describe the shadowy anti-democratic cabals that allegedly linked the military, organized crime, terrorists, foreign and domestic intelligence agencies, the government, and the judiciary in Turkey.
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What animated all of this justified alarmism wasn't just the secrecy of the bill-writing process—the anti-democratic method of hiding fine print from the public—but that Republicans were using that method to fade the entire purpose of Trumpcare out of public memory.
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A former head of the C.G.T., Louis Viannet, denounced the government for perpetrating an "aggression that is antisocial, anti-democratic, and I would say also anti-republican," an insult in France where to be a republican implies a loyalty almost to the concept of France.
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"The expanded entry restrictions may apply to individuals both within and outside the Cambodian government who are responsible for the most notable anti-democratic actions taken in the run-up to the flawed July 29 election," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told a news briefing.
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Newspaper editorials and social media are awash with fears the poll may be delayed due to behind-the-scenes scheming by "anti-democratic forces" - yet another euphemism used to describe the army and its spy bodies, including the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.
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She'll need to respect the process and the voters who cast their ballots for her opponent, and acknowledge their right to have done so, while simultaneously casting the election as a rejection of the anti-democratic ideas that have come to be associated with Trump.
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With the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, general Trump-era anxieties have found a focal point in the fear of right-wing judicial activism, of a high court that pushes policy rightward and allows Republicans to lock in anti-democratic advantages.
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But then the example of Gary Cohn stealing a letter off Trump's desk to prevent him from dissolving the U.S.-South Korean trade compact seems closer to an example of the anti-democratic vice — because after all, Trump campaigned on renegotiating trade deals, didn't he?
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And that was enough to outweigh the loud barrage of U.S. warnings that Huawei's gear would open the door to espionage — not to mention a future in which the intrusive, anti-democratic principles of the Chinese Communist Party rule the technologies of the future.
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He questions the relationship between the sculptor who fabricates massive work and the financial structures behind it, exposing the anti-democratic, hierarchical forces that go into the making of an impeccable monumental sculpture — the celebration of the artist as successful entrepreneur rather than a laborer.
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Too many Republicans have been cowards by failing to fight for American democracy against a foreign enemy who would destroy it while they pursue an anti-democratic program of voter suppression, depression, division and deception executed by GOP politicians and supported by their propaganda.
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It is only the latest victory of far-right nationalism that in the past 24 hours has seen the first step toward the end of the moderate conservative leadership of Angela Merkel in Germany and growing fears of the spread of anti-democratic dogmatism.
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In this case, Mr. Manafort had arranged for a team of lawyers from Skadden Arps to conduct an analysis in 2012 that he intended to use to allay international concerns about the anti-democratic practices of the government of President Viktor F. Yanukovych of Ukraine.
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"I'll tell you from having to survive a coup in Thailand that what happens to a country after those coups is far worse than rounding up people, interrogating them and trying to figure out what happened and trying to avoid the next anti-democratic coup," he said.
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Many Italians are attracted to Grillo's fierce criticism of the European currency, which he has deemed an "anti-democratic straitjacket" out of concern that the EU will impose harsh austerity measures on Italy in the case of a bank bailout, in the manner it did with Greece.
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"Allowing one of the candidates to not just preside over their own election but misuse their office to give them an unfair advantage is just anti-democratic and unlawful," Bryan Sells, a former Justice Department attorney who is co-counsel on the case, said in a statement.
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As these former administration officials see it, the U.S. intelligence community—composed of 17 different agencies with a combined budget of more than $20003 billion a year—is defending the highest standards of public service, analytical thinking, and patriotic action by resisting the president's anti-democratic impulses.
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Not coincidentally, Trump and the GOP have applied that brand to their foreign policy, abandoning the emphasis on democracy promotion that Ronald Reagan championed and replacing it with outspoken openness toward anti-democratic strongmen in places such as Russia, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, China and Turkey.
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On the one hand, some believe we have too much democracy, too few barriers between popular will and the application of power; on the other hand, some argue that we have too little democracy, that we're witnessing a righteous backlash against an anti-democratic and rigged system.
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At the end of the Obama administration, Congress directed the Pentagon to send $19 million to the State Department so it could coordinate governmentwide efforts, including those by the Defense Department and the Department of Homeland Security, to counter anti-democratic propaganda by Russia and China.
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"The vote in the Senate and in the House makes it clear that the United States will not continue to follow the despotic, anti-democratic leadership coming out of Saudi Arabia," said Senator Bernie Sanders, independent of Vermont and one of the lead sponsors of the resolution.
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In an incendiary move hailed as historic by Mr. Netanyahu's right-wing coalition but denounced by centrists and leftists as racist and anti-democratic, Israel's Parliament enacted a law that enshrines the right of national self-determination as "unique to the Jewish people" — not all citizens.
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"Bernie is the only candidate who has a comprehensive foreign policy vision to stand up to the growing movement of anti-democratic authoritarianism worldwide and find solidarity with working people around the world who, in many cases, share common needs," said Josh Orton, Sanders' national policy director.
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Mr. Johnson announced in late August that he would suspend, or prorogue, Parliament for five weeks at the height of the Brexit crisis — a move that was condemned as an anti-democratic outrage, both by the opposition and by some lawmakers in his own Conservative Party.
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In a televised news conference, Laura Borras, a separatist lawmaker, called the ruling "profoundly anti-democratic" and a violation not only of the rights of elected politicians, but also of the more than two 2 million people who voted for separatist parties in Catalonia in recent years.
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That said, I've written that there is one entirely possible scenario where court-packing could be justified: if the Supreme Court grows so hostile to voting rights that the only way to preserve competitive elections in the United States is to eliminate the Court's anti-democratic majority.
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Republicans see an opportunity to use it against Democrats: They are circulating petitions to put a voter initiative on the ballot to repeal the measure (and in the process, they hope, bring out an anti-Democratic vote that could protect congressional Republicans facing tough re-election battles.).
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"It's anti-democratic, and anti-republican, and it basically blows up all the norms of what is supposed to be the core feature of a free political system, which is the peaceful and orderly transfer of power," said Norm Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
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If Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Kennedy's presumed replacement, or any other justice signs on to Justice Kagan's theory in the next gerrymandering case, which is possible, then courts may be able to step in and fix some of the biggest anti-democratic abuses that both political parties have engaged in.
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If political actors at least attempt to see society as a system of fair social cooperation, and maintain a certain level of respect for the ideals of public reason, then there is no risk of anyone trying the hardline anti-democratic tactics that we've seen in places like Hungary.
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There's an interesting historical correlation in the rise of these movies — which are within their worlds fundamentally uninterested in anything democratic, that promote a super-elite Ayn Randian idea of what authority and heroism looks like — and the rise in the real world of anti-democratic authoritarian politics.
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In an incendiary move hailed as historic by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition but denounced by centrists and leftists as racist and anti-democratic, Israel's Parliament enacted a law that enshrines the right of national self-determination as "unique to the _________ people" — not all citizens. 27.
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Why, by contrast, is a candidate's record of disrespect for human rights, personal security and dignity, especially regarding women, not interpreted as a warning of retrograde, anti-democratic values and of disregard for the rule of law (which will probably turn out to be "bad for business" also)?
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Inspired by the ideas of Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, imprisoned by Turkey since 1999, the Syrian Kurds are no longer demanding a nation-state of their own because they have developed a critique of the anti-democratic, militaristic and patriarchal nature of nation-states.
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Republican belief in the evils of Democrats are so deep that they are quite willing to do profoundly anti-democratic things, such as use the powers of state and federal offices to suppress Democratic votes, or look past a president's misdeeds in order to keep Democrats from winning.
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Johnson wrote that the backstop was anti-democratic and threatened the United Kingdom's sovereignty as the application of single-market rules in Northern Ireland could divide the province from the rest of the UK. He also said it risked upsetting the delicate balance between nationalists and unionists in Northern Ireland.
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Johnson wrote that the backstop was anti-democratic and threatened the United Kingdom's sovereignty as the application of single-market rules in Northern Ireland could divide Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK. He also said it risked weakening the delicate balance between nationalists and unionists in Northern Ireland.
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The right-wing media machine is already working to delegitimize the impeachment process and make it seem like an anti-democratic process... Trump isn't the only one losing control Oliver Darcy emails: As was widely pointed out on Monday, Trump's Twitter feed has been even more over-the-top than normal.
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This is the answer to the normalcy of the 2016 election: As abnormal and unqualified and erratic as Trump showed himself to be, with Clinton's help, he still activated pro-Republican and anti-Democratic identities, and that left him a stone's throw, or a Jim Comey letter, away from the presidency.
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Despite Bezos's victory over the National Enquirer—and by extension the president, who enjoys a mutually beneficial relationship with the paper's publisher, David Pecker—there's growing tension between Bezos's role as the savior of one of America's most important news organizations and his role overseeing an anti-democratic corporate behemoth.
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Recall that President Bill Clinton withdrew the nomination of Lani Guinier to head the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department because she had the temerity to argue that winner-take-all majoritarianism — a staple American practice — is, in important respects, anti-democratic inasmuch as it negates the influence of minorities.
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We saw this anti-democratic effort take place in the 2016 election right here in the United States, where we now know that the Russian government was engaged in a massive effort to undermine one of our greatest strengths: The integrity of our elections, and our faith in our own democracy.
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At the height of Mr. Orban's anti-democratic measures, between 2010 and 2015, he rarely faced significant censure within the European People's Party, since his peers did not judge him a threat to European integration, and believed that they still had a moderating effect on the worst of his domestic policies.
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" Ana Maria Archila, the co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy, which endorsed Sanders in the 2020 primary, said the Vermont senator should seek to broaden the discussion over Cuba and make it clear that he believes anti-democratic laws and customs perpetrated by the Castros are "unforgivable.
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They also argued that the platform's advanced targeting and behavioral tracking tools make it "hard for people in the electorate to participate in the public scrutiny that we're saying comes along with political speech" — accusing the company's leadership of making disingenuous arguments in defence of a toxic, anti-democratic policy.
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Mr. Erdogan's opponents in Germany, both Turkish and German, say the president wants to use the freedoms of Western democracy to further consolidate his anti-democratic powers at home, and they accuse him and his men of using their right to free speech in Germany while denying it in Turkey.
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" The problem: "The Human Rights Foundation, a nonprofit that tracks closed societies, says countries in Africa that it considers democratic — 14 in all — are outnumbered by 19 full dictatorships and another 19 it calls 'competitive authoritarian regimes,' in which autocrats allow elections to be held while engaging in serious anti-democratic abuses.
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The American silence is all the more notable in contrast to escalating steps toward sanctions by Brussels, which has become so concerned about Poland's anti-democratic drift that it has moved to invoke Article 7 of the European Union treaty for a potential breach of obligations as a member of the bloc.
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In an era of increasingly autocratic leaders — with anti-Democratic forces sweeping up furious voters across Europe — some politicians have whispered privately that although the results of the election may be disastrous for the country's efforts at modernization, they may be preferable for European leaders and investors afraid of a populist government.
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Because nobody knows how to handle the succession to Khamenei, who is 78, has ruled for almost three decades and, as divine arbiter (a man standing in for the occulted 12th imam until his expected reappearance), embodies the anti-democratic intrusion of heaven on a system with a veneer of democratic institutions.
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In the last few weeks alone, he voted to protect a Christian baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple, he voted to uphold President Trump's travel ban and he declined to rein in partisan gerrymandering, one of the most corrosive and anti-democratic practices in modern America.
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This fundamentally anti-democratic plot would destroy not just any notion of "unity" (which is a scam the Democratic establishment has been opportunistically and hypocritically pushing throughout the election) but also hand the election to Trump, who wants nothing more than a fractured Dem party ripe for accusations of rigging the process.
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"Forcing through no-deal against a decision of parliament, and denying the choice to the voters in a general election already underway, would be an unprecedented, unconstitutional and anti-democratic abuse of power by a prime minister elected, not by the public, but by a small number of unrepresentative Conservative Party members," Corbyn wrote.
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The execution of political opponents ranks up there on indexes of anti-democratic behaviors -- it was a favorite tactic of Hitler -- so it's notable that the GOP leadership never publicly reprimanded state lawmakers, Al Baldasaro of New Hampshire and John Bennett of Oklahoma, for calling for Trump's Democratic competition, Hillary Clinton, to be killed.
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In a four-page letter to EU Council President Donald Tusk published on Monday, Johnson called the Irish backstop measure anti-democratic and Downing Street hopes that important EU members including Germany and France — where Johnson will travel tomorrow — might ask the EU Commission, which yesterday rejected Johnson's new Brexit demands, to change its position.
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"Forcing through no deal against a decision of parliament, and denying the choice to the voters in a general election already underway, would be an unprecedented, unconstitutional and anti-democratic abuse of power by a prime minister elected, not by the public, but by a small number of unrepresentative Conservative party members," he wrote.
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Women, blacks, Hispanics, seniors and young people have it within their voting power to defeat a president who foments national division, exploits racial tension, and demonizes whole groups of Americans while his party makes a mockery of calling itself the party of Lincoln by waging hostile and anti-democratic attacks against their right to vote.
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Words cannot express the danger to democracy of a reelected Trump with a Republican majority in Congress marching in lockstep behind his dark vision of anti-democratic impulses, repeated claims that his major opponents are treasonous, and crony capitalist corruptions that must never again be allowed to dominate American politics and poison American democracy.
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There is a reason why The Economist will not invite the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan or the leader of the American Nazi Party to a tough, skeptical interview by its editor-in-chief on the stage of the Open Future Festival: Their racist/nativist/anti-democratic positions are irretrievably hostile to our multi-ethnic, democratic society.
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"History is replete with illegal things going on during elections, but at this point in the 21st Century, to make the grandiose statement like Trump is -- that the election is rigged is bogus -- it is anti-democratic spirit, it is anti-American at its core," said CNN historian Douglas Brinkley from Rice University on CNN's "New Day" on Monday.
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Thiel got his start fighting "political correctness" at Stanford, he does not care much for immigrants (having donated $1 million to the far-right anti-immigrant group NumbersUSA), and he has strong anti-democratic opinions of a kind that naturally lend themselves to support for a candidate who has a, shall we say, conflicted relationship with democratic norms.
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It is absurd, too, looking back on Heller, to think that this sort of conservative jurisprudence was ever taken seriously, instead of being considered the decades-long culmination of efforts by the NRA and other right-wing institutions to turn the judiciary into an anti-democratic bulwark serving the interests of the wealthy and the powerful.
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Since the shock of Donald Trump's election, many liberals have decided that their own coalition is the real American majority, victimized by un-democratic institutions and an anti-democratic G.O.P. Their mood is one of anger at the System, and confidence in their unacknowledged, temporarily-impeded mandate: They've got the structures, but we've got the numbers.
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But when you listen to the voices of Indigenous people, be it a pipeline supporter like Skin or a member of the opposition, like Mumilaaq Qaqqaq, the 27-year-old Inuk member of Parliament from Nunavut, the divisiveness that Scheer and CGL would have you believe exists is suddenly no longer illegitimate or anti-democratic but perfectly human.
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America's Iran psychosis, and vice versa, stems from an old story — an anti-democratic coup in Iran engineered in part by American agents, an anti-Western theocratic revolution, the hostage crisis, kidnappings, bombings, Iran-Contra, an Iranian passenger plane shot out of the sky, an ideological war — that will not find resolution in Trump's simplistic histrionics.
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In a historic vote on Wednesday, over two-thirds of members of the European Parliament voted to trigger soon Article 7 of the Lisbon Treaty, which starts the process of sanctioning the Hungarian government in light of its growing authoritarian and anti-democratic behavior, which could eventually lead to the suspension of Hungary's voting rights in the European Union.
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Many will write about his bizarre primary strategy (he's skipping the first four races and banking on big wins in big states that vote later, like California and, uh, Alabama) and anti-democratic efforts to buy the Democratic nomination by flooding the airwaves with advertisements (he is spending a Steyer-ish $34 million through December 3).
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I mean you have a situation where, especially in the aftermath of the children being separated from their parents at the border, you know, there is lot of concern over whether or not ICE&aposs behavior has been too aggressive and they are simply carrying out without proper accountability and proper review of their actions steps that, in fact, are anti-Democratic.
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Over the past two decades, Democrats steadily lost disaffected former supporters, while failing to consistently mobilize young or economically precarious people alienated from the entire political process, as the Republican Party increasingly became a nihilistic, anti-democratic machine designed to bamboozle a white elderly base and thwart the desires of the larger public for the sake of an entrenched oligarchy.
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We are expected to agree (and we comply!) with the paternal admonition that it is irresponsible and hyperemotional to request one female president after 241 years of male ones — because that would be tokenism, anti-democratic and dangerous — as though generations of white male politicians haven't proven themselves utterly disinterested in caring for the needs of communities to which they do not belong.
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The Brexit negotiations have recently imposed an artificial unity on the 27 states that are on the opposite side of the table from the UK. But the East-West tensions remain, compounded by the anti-democratic antics of governments in Poland and Hungary; and discussions over the EU's next seven-year budget cycle will bring those tensions back into the open.
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"Even more than his predecessors, Zeid fully embraced the role of U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights as 'conscience for the world,' eloquently using his voice to become 'a sort of nightmare' for dictators, demagogues, and anti-democratic foes," said Felice Gaer, director of the American Jewish Committee's Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights, in New York.
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Giving more power to corporate consolidation — to corporations as a whole — and less power to Americans, and we will be losing what I believe are so much of ... These are anti-democratic forces that are being unleashed in our country that are undermining the power and the strength of citizenship of individuals as corporations in our country are gaining more and more power.
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But what I think Democrats don't fully grasp now but maybe didn't grasp then — and myself included — for at least part of the time is what's happening now is Fox is providing content — anti-Democratic, Republican, anti-Obama content, now pro-Trump content — that is telling a story, and then that content is being weaponized by people using Facebook to promote it.
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Another Labour source said: "This anti-democratic undermining of the Spitzenkandidaten system and support for a right-wing candidate challenges the idea that these MEPs want to democratically reform as well as remain in the EU." Officials in Brussels reject the argument that the process of appointing the Commission president lacks democratic legitimacy, saying that both the national leaders and the European Parliament's lawmakers are elected.
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One possible effect of the Democrats' win would be to push remaining Republicans in Congress, particularly in the Senate, to become more critical of Trump and support checks on his more anti-democratic tendencies: resisting phony "voter fraud" crackdowns, for instance, pushing back on his attacks on the press, and backing legislation to protect special counsel Robert Mueller and the independence of prosecutors more generally.
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Farage, a vocal backer of both President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE and the Brexit movement, at the time was accusing the EU of being "anti-American" and "anti-democratic zealots" in reference to European complaints about Trump's latest immigration and refugee restrictions.
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One possible effect of a Democratic win in the House would be to push remaining Republicans in Congress, particularly in the Senate, to become more critical of Trump and support checks on his more anti-democratic tendencies: resisting phony "voter fraud" crackdowns, for instance, pushing back on his attacks on the press, and backing legislation to protect Robert Mueller and the independence of prosecutors more generally.
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What we can learn from 1930s Europe is that democracy is imperiled when mainstream politicians do not act decisively against anti-democratic figures, when they continue to let day-to-day political calculations guide them, when they align with extremists because it is politically useful, or when they simply tolerate them via silence or ambiguity because they are popular with "the base" and it is politically costly to confront them.
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What happened: The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, an agency whose founding mission after World War II was to protect against the rise of political forces like another Nazi party, announced that it would start observing the AfD's youth wing and a group of prominent party members, including a co-leader, and that it had found indications that at least parts of the party harbored anti-democratic views.
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And that's not all: the powers of the federal government are often unnecessarily limited to issues that cross over state lines; there is nothing in the Constitution to address bribery disguised as lobbying; there is no clear system for the outlining of congressional districts, allowing gerrymandering to ensue; and the two-term limitation on the presidency (added in 1951 by the 22nd Amendment ) is both anti-democratic and unnecessary.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Forcing through a no-deal Brexit during an election campaign would be "an unprecedented, unconstitutional and anti-democratic abuse of power" by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Thursday In a letter to cabinet secretary Mark Sedwill, Britain's most senior government official, Corbyn said Labour would never support leaving the European Union without a deal and was concerned after reports suggested Johnson would do exactly that.
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Read more: Remainer MPs could ask the Queen to sack Boris Johnson if he loses a no-confidence vote"Forcing through No Deal against a decision of Parliament and denying the choice to the voters in a general election already underway would be an unprecedented, unconstitutional and anti-democratic abuse of power by a Prime Minister elected not by the public, but by a small number of unrepresentative Conservative Party Members," he wrote.
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For Republicans unwilling to vote for a Democrat, but unhappy with the populism of President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and the anti-democratic methods adopted by Republican leaders, such a party would offer a way to uphold their conservative values and their partisan preference.
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Apparently Trump is just as unhinged behind closed doors as he is in public, with the writer calling the president an "amoral" man who has "anti-democratic" impulses and a leadership style that is "impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective": All that tracks with previous reporting about Trump's White House, including Woodward's book, which describes cabinet officials literally stealing papers off of Trump's desk so he can't sign particularly extreme orders (the president apparently doesn't notice).
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Some of the things admitted as victim-impact evidence, including testimony that the victim was an excellent piano player, was "good honest hardworking God fearing people," was a "smart person with higher IQ than others in her family" or had "a 3.8 grade point average," would appear to advance the fundamentally anti-democratic notion that the lives of the eloquent, the intelligent, the beautiful, the cherished are more worthy of the full protection of the law than others.
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Europe has plenty of problems but such exaggerations will become yet more lurid as the campaign enters its final weeks; expect more blood-curdling warnings of the chaos should Turkey join the EU. The insinuation that Britain should abandon its neighbours in their hour of need—anti-democratic forces on the march, decline and disintegration threatening—is a betrayal of the blood, sweat and treasure that the country has dedicated to the pursuit of peace and prosperity on the continent.
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Former special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerFox News legal analyst says Trump call with Ukraine leader could be 'more serious' than what Mueller 'dragged up' Lewandowski says Mueller report was 'very clear' in proving 'there was no obstruction,' despite having 'never' read it Fox's Cavuto roasts Trump over criticism of network MORE, who was in charge of investigating the Kremlin's 2016 hacking and disinformation campaign, told lawmakers earlier this year that preventing Russia's anti-democratic aggression should be a top concern.
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"Primaries is where we find the next generation of leadership, and it's where people cut their teeth on this system, and the idea that we're only going to support people that have been cherry-picked by a dark, backroom process is so anti-democratic with a small d and the big D." Asked whether she would want to talk to Pelosi about the policy, Ocasio-Cortez said, "I hope so, I hope so," but deferred to the cochairs of the Progressive Caucus on negotiations.
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If you pretended you oversaw the most powerful military, diplomatic corps, and liberal political system in human history, and you wanted to discover the single action that would threaten a friendly people with atrocities, war crimes, and genocide; expose U.S. troops to attack by a foreign state's military; scatter Islamist terrorist prisoners to the winds and invigorate their movement; boost anti-democratic, murderous regimes in Damascus, Ankara, Moscow, and Tehran; shred longstanding liberal alliances; and demoralize citizens of your own nation—you could have barely topped what President Trump has just done.
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In addition, anti-migrant policies and anti-democratic actions in eastern Europe have put countries like Hungary and Poland on a path towards potential disciplinary action with the rest of the EU. Soros explored the political situation in Germany, where Chancellor Angela Merkel (who's serving her last term in office) is seeing her own Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party pressured in office not only by its coalition partners, the Christian Social Union (CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) but by the far-right "Alternative for Germany" (AfD) that has gained voters with its euroskeptic, anti-immigration pledges.
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