Leaders such as Trump and Orbán could only be effectively opposed, she said, by ditching a “legalistic, technical, technocratic approach” in favor of “something for the electorate to be excited about”.
Leaders such as Trump and Orbán could only be effectively opposed, she said, by ditching a “legalistic, technical, technocratic approach” in favor of “something for the electorate to be excited about”.
That would require them to represent the many rather than the few, which would mean ditching the kind of people who rose in the party for the last 4 decades because they could do exactly the opposite and be handsomely rewarded for it.
Mind you, that’s a broader problem than just the Democrat Party in the US and affects most mainstream parties in Western Democracies.
Exactly.
Watch what is happening in Hungary. We were the petri dish, the prototype of the rot, we might be the prototype of the solution.