"The E.U. is becoming more and more ungovernable," an analyst said.
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"The E.U. is becoming more and more ungovernable," said Mark Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a research institute.
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It changes shape from moment to moment, and while it is clear and rarely disputed that things are somehow getting worse—more egregious and more ungovernable and more unreasonable and more unreasoning—the descent has a lot of weird switchbacks and unmarked detours.
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If the early rise of Netflix helped define the tail end of the Prestige TV era with standouts like House of Cards and The Crown—serious, high-gloss dramas that were smart, self-aware, and essayistic—its current push is something much more ungovernable.
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Memes were distributed, millions of dollars spent, fake accounts employed — all to encourage not just the specific political goal of elevating Trump (and Bernie Sanders) and discrediting both party establishments, but the broader ambition of widening our internal fissures, inflaming our debates, making our imperium more ungovernable at home and thus weaker on the global stage.
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This may explain the appeal of a postelection pivot back into the virtual, in the form of some kind of Trump TV. And again, it's possible to imagine a darkly influential trajectory for such a network, in which it dominates the conservative entertainment landscape, race-baits and stirs outrage nightly, and so terrifies Republicans that Washington becomes more ungovernable than ever.
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As a result of the increase in post-war economic and social-political instability and the concomitant surge in Fascist violence, Italy was by now being seen as ever more "ungovernable". That was the context in which, in August 1922, Marcello Soleri agreed to join the new Facta government, this time serving as Minister of War. (Aged just 40, he was the youngest member of the government.) There are suggestions that the appointment had been recommended by the nationalists. Giuseppe Bevione was a longstanding friend of Soleri's.
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As the tribes balked and began to refuse the higher taxes, the sultan decided to circumvent the elected tribal leaders (amghars), refusing to ratify their credentials, and instead appointed qaids (lords) of his own choosing, imposing them upon the tribes. The qaids were rarely of the same tribal stock as the tribes they governed, but were instead ambitious men, chosen primarily for their ruthless ability to crush rebellion and force the tribes to cough up. Initially designed as a centralizing move, this eventually backfired, as the qaids, once esconsed in their tribal fiefs, proved even more ungovernable than the amghars had ever been. During Muhammad IV's reign, Morocco began essentially careening into feudalism, a process that accelerated during the reign of his successor, Hassan I.
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