I think that a more plausible explanation for the current political situation in France dates to the 2022 elections. The left overcame their revulsion of making common cause with anti-semites and Putin apologists to cobble together a coalition capable of stifling Macron. The resulting gridlock takes us here.
The American situation is similar. Overreach by those claiming to defend democracy have undermined their own credibility. They have fed the monster that they set out to slay. Colluding to hide the president’s very serious medical condition is only the latest misstep, albeit a very serious one.
Political partisans, eager to defend their own interests, work tirelessly against competency, decency, and compromise. The world is far more dangerous and we are crushed by debt. Whether they believe that they did it to save democracy or not, the result is equally disheartening.
Can Fukuyama be any more clear that for him "democracy" is only "robust" when his favored candidates (the anti-democratic globalist technocrats) win? It's preposterous. He's like a perfect stenographer of elitist consensus.
I find the conflation of "democracy" with "progressivism", for such I take it to be, unfortunate. You will occasionally note anti-democratic moves from the Left, I think they are mostly ignored or mischaracterized.
For example -- and I would be very happy to hear from you that I'm wrong about this -- I assume that had the Israeli judicial reform passed you would have counted that as another data point in the retreat of democracy, whereas the existing situation of the High Court having unlimited power, unlike anything we see in other Western democracies, is anything but democratic. In fact, were the majority of Israeli justices conservative rather than progressive, you would surely find the Court's power to be a strike against Israeli democracy, just as you consider what you perceive as a Republican partisan bent to SCOTUS to be problematic, but even more so.
Although I found several good nuggets of thinking in this interview, I am not really impressed at all with Fukuyama's assessment and command of key understanding of what is happening in the world. This is typical of ivory tower theorists that don't for example, run a business or have much life experience outside of media chattering class geography.
The tectonic changes we are seeing related to "populist" (what ever that means other than majority interest) candidates began with Brexit and then Trump, and was waylaid (conveniently) by the global pandemic, and now is back with a force. This is the building end of the post Bretton Woods Global Order. It is the rejection of the globalist corporatist movement that led to the Great Recession which was a global financial crisis in which the elites caused the crash and then bailed themselves out. It dismantles the WEF Agenda 2030 plan and all the fake news supporting more Wall Street and real estate asset returns at the continued expense of working class and poor economic outcomes. It acknowledges that China in the WTO was a massive mistake that will take decades to remedy.
We might cycle though this a few times... as the problems are so deep and entrenched that austerity will be required to correct. The people whom tend to be idiots about short-term vs long-term well-being will hate that and vote some of the anti-Regime, anti-globalist leaders out of office. But then those replacements will against screw things up even worse, and then back again to those candidates that promise domestic focus.
In the end we will return to a world where the US is no longer policing the world, exporting all its industrial assets and jobs, and opening its borders for the benefit of secure global mercantilism that only benefits the top 10% and jacking up a $40+ trillion dollar deficit and a $1+ trillion dollar per year trade imbalance. With the US ending the post Bretton Woods Global Order the rest of the world is going to have to learn how to care for itself.
The "populist" voters see this... they are just more savvy than are the bubble Regime people that have it so good that they cannot understand the changes happening... because they don't have the same immediate fears percolating in their families and neighborhoods.
I think that a more plausible explanation for the current political situation in France dates to the 2022 elections. The left overcame their revulsion of making common cause with anti-semites and Putin apologists to cobble together a coalition capable of stifling Macron. The resulting gridlock takes us here.
The American situation is similar. Overreach by those claiming to defend democracy have undermined their own credibility. They have fed the monster that they set out to slay. Colluding to hide the president’s very serious medical condition is only the latest misstep, albeit a very serious one.
Political partisans, eager to defend their own interests, work tirelessly against competency, decency, and compromise. The world is far more dangerous and we are crushed by debt. Whether they believe that they did it to save democracy or not, the result is equally disheartening.
Can Fukuyama be any more clear that for him "democracy" is only "robust" when his favored candidates (the anti-democratic globalist technocrats) win? It's preposterous. He's like a perfect stenographer of elitist consensus.
I find the conflation of "democracy" with "progressivism", for such I take it to be, unfortunate. You will occasionally note anti-democratic moves from the Left, I think they are mostly ignored or mischaracterized.
For example -- and I would be very happy to hear from you that I'm wrong about this -- I assume that had the Israeli judicial reform passed you would have counted that as another data point in the retreat of democracy, whereas the existing situation of the High Court having unlimited power, unlike anything we see in other Western democracies, is anything but democratic. In fact, were the majority of Israeli justices conservative rather than progressive, you would surely find the Court's power to be a strike against Israeli democracy, just as you consider what you perceive as a Republican partisan bent to SCOTUS to be problematic, but even more so.
Although I found several good nuggets of thinking in this interview, I am not really impressed at all with Fukuyama's assessment and command of key understanding of what is happening in the world. This is typical of ivory tower theorists that don't for example, run a business or have much life experience outside of media chattering class geography.
The tectonic changes we are seeing related to "populist" (what ever that means other than majority interest) candidates began with Brexit and then Trump, and was waylaid (conveniently) by the global pandemic, and now is back with a force. This is the building end of the post Bretton Woods Global Order. It is the rejection of the globalist corporatist movement that led to the Great Recession which was a global financial crisis in which the elites caused the crash and then bailed themselves out. It dismantles the WEF Agenda 2030 plan and all the fake news supporting more Wall Street and real estate asset returns at the continued expense of working class and poor economic outcomes. It acknowledges that China in the WTO was a massive mistake that will take decades to remedy.
We might cycle though this a few times... as the problems are so deep and entrenched that austerity will be required to correct. The people whom tend to be idiots about short-term vs long-term well-being will hate that and vote some of the anti-Regime, anti-globalist leaders out of office. But then those replacements will against screw things up even worse, and then back again to those candidates that promise domestic focus.
In the end we will return to a world where the US is no longer policing the world, exporting all its industrial assets and jobs, and opening its borders for the benefit of secure global mercantilism that only benefits the top 10% and jacking up a $40+ trillion dollar deficit and a $1+ trillion dollar per year trade imbalance. With the US ending the post Bretton Woods Global Order the rest of the world is going to have to learn how to care for itself.
The "populist" voters see this... they are just more savvy than are the bubble Regime people that have it so good that they cannot understand the changes happening... because they don't have the same immediate fears percolating in their families and neighborhoods.