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Your Anti-Authoritarianism Is Borked

or maybe it's just standing on its head

Chris Bray
Mar 31, 2023
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Midwit exemplar and authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat, crowing about the Very Important Indictment of Donald Trump, and go look at her Twitter timeline if you want to see her going on and on and on about it:

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat
The essence of authoritarianism is getting away with crime. That's why this indictment is so important
12:12 AM ∙ Mar 31, 2023
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Meanwhile, back on earth, the very essence of authoritarianism is the arrest of the opposition party’s leaders:

Another opposition leader arrested in Nicaragua

https://www.france24.com › France 24 › Live news

May 18, 2022 — Managua (AFP) – Nicaraguan opposition leader Yubrank Suazo, who took part in protests against President Daniel Ortega's government in 2018, ...

Opposition Leader, Supporters Arrested in Chad

Human Rights Watch

https://www.hrw.org › news › 2022/05/18 › oppositio...

May 18, 2022 — On May 17, the group's spokesperson, Max Loalngar, was arrested. The six men have been charged with disturbing the public order, harm to ...

Tanzanian Opposition Leader, Supporters Arrested

https://www.hrw.org › news › 2021/07/22 › tanzanian...

Jul 22, 2021 — Tanzanian Opposition Leader, Supporters Arrested ... Tanzania Chadema party chairman Freeman Mbowe (center) arrives at the party's headquarters ...

Cambodia opposition leader Kem Sokha sentenced to 27 ...

Al Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com › news › cambodia-oppositi...

Mar 3, 2023 — Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha has been sentenced to 27 years under house arrest after being found guilty of ...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny detained at ...

CNBC

https://www.cnbc.com › 2021/01/17 › russian-opposition...

Jan 17, 2021 — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained at a Moscow airport after returning from Germany on Sunday, the prison service said. The ...

Nika Melia, Georgian opposition leader, is arrested at party

BBC

https://www.bbc.com › news › world-europe-56167147

Feb 23, 2021 — Police in Georgia have arrested the country's main opposition leader, Nika Melia, in a violent raid on his party's headquarters.

Opposition leader detained as Senegal tensions rise

Africa News

https://www.africanews.com › 2023/02/17 › oppositio...

Feb 17, 2023 — Senegalese opposition politician Ousmane Sonko was forcibly removed from his vehicle by security forces Thursday after his supporters were ...

Congo arrests opposition leader Kabund

Reuters

https://www.reuters.com › world › africa › congo-arrests...

Aug 9, 2022 — KINSHASA, Aug 9 (Reuters) - A former right-hand man of Democratic Republic of Congo's president and now opposition leader, Jean-Marc Kabund, ...

Senior Pakistani Opposition leader Fawad Chaudhry ...

The Hindu

https://www.thehindu.com › News › World

Jan 25, 2023 — Fawad Chaudhry was taken into custody from his residence in Lahore. ... Pakistani authorities on January 25 arrested Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ...

Arrests of Opposition Figures in Benin

Department of State (.gov)

https://www.state.gov › arrests-of-opposition-figures-i...

Apr 23, 2021 — The United States notes with concern the numerous arrests of opposition political leaders related to the April 11 presidential elections.

Sudan arrests senior opposition leader amid protest ...

Al-Monitor

https://www.al-monitor.com › originals › 2022/03 › s...

Mar 8, 2022 — Sudanese security forces arrested a senior opposition leader Tuesday, as officers fired tear gas to stop thousands of protesters rallying ...

Uganda Opposition Leader Bobi Wine Placed Under ...

The Organization for World Peace

https://theowp.org › uganda-opposition-leader-bobi-w...

Dec 20, 2021 — Bobi Wine, an opposition leader in Uganda, said he had been placed under house arrest on Tuesday. Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, known by the ...

Who Will Be the Next Turkish Opposition Party Leader ...

American Enterprise Institute

https://www.aei.org › op-eds › who-will-be-the-next-t...

Jan 20, 2023 — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, eager to cement a third decade in power, ... he ordered the arrest of Selahattin Demirtas, co-leader of the ...

Who is Luis Fernando Camacho, the opposition leader ...

The Indian Express

https://indianexpress.com › ... › Explained Global

Dec 30, 2022 — Prominent Bolivian opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho was arrested on Wednesday, exacerbating tensions between the government in La Paz ...

Venezuela opposition leader sentenced to 8 years in prison

Reuters

https://www.reuters.com › world › americas › venezuela-...

Aug 4, 2022 — Requesens was detained for about two years between 2018 and 2020 in the case, which stems from explosions that rocked a military event where ...


….and so on. You can loathe Donald Trump and still see the meaning of the moment. Democratic prosecutors hunting for a way to indict the Republican presidential frontrunner ahead of the election: very anti-authoritarian.

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Mar 31Liked by Chris Bray

I think the target is not so much Trump himself, as it is the populist movement that punished the establishment and elected him. The nomenklatura is furious and scared when there's an injection of popular will. They want that crushed.

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Kayleen Hunsaker
Mar 31Liked by Chris Bray

These things you are writing about just make my head feel like it might explode.

I have watched craziness happen most of my life [I am 70], but it seems to have accelerated lately;

or is that just my imagination? HA!!!

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