America’s Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent

Date: 2020-11-06T13:03:27-05:00
Author: Zeynep Tufekci @theatlantic

Description: Trump was ineffective and easily beaten. A future strongman won’t be.

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Source: theatlantic.com
Original article URL: [www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/1... ]

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1	From an international perspective, though, Trump is just one more example of the many populists on the right who have risen to power around the world: Narendra Modi in India, Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Vladimir Putin in Russia, Jarosław Kaczyński in Poland, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey, my home country.	theatlantic.com
2	These people win elections but subvert democratic norms: by criminalizing dissent, suppressing or demonizing the media, harassing the opposition, and deploying extra-legal mechanisms whenever possible (Putin’s opponents have a penchant for meeting tragic accidents).	theatlantic.com
3	Luck aside, though, Trump is not good at his job. He doesn’t even seem to like it much. He is too undisciplined and thin-skinned to be effective at politics over a sustained period, which involves winning repeated elections	theatlantic.com