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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said Friday that the GOP will "follow Donald Trump and those conspiracy theories, no matter what."
Anne Applebaum is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a Pulitzer Prize winning historian. In her recent book she explains the lure of nationalism and autocracy. (Special to the Daily) From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on the rise. On Thursday at 6 p.m. Vail Symposium will facilitate a discussion between author Anne Applebaum and Larry Diamond to delve into the lure of authoritarianism. “Anne Applebaum and Larry Diamond have devoted their lives to the study of opposite ends of the political spectru...
BOOK REVIEW: Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will. Anne Applebaum Published in the United States by Doubleday, New York “The emotional appeal of a conspiracy theory is in its simplicity. It explains away complex phenomena, accounts for chance and accidents, offers the believer the satisfying sense of having special, privileged access to the truth. For those who become the one-party state’s gatekeepers, the repetition of ...
But I don’t want to revisit the 80s. Sure, it’d be great to have the pre-dad body and the energy and drive that came with it but I don’t miss the mullet, the thick glasses and being – to quote a much newer song – young, dumb and broke. That’s what the Russian writer Svetlana Boym calls reflective nostalgia – savouring the sweetness of days gone by but not actually wanting to go back there. Nostalgia isn’t just reflective, Boym notes. Restorative nostalgia is the longing for days gone by but through rose-coloured glasses. The good times are remembered two-dimensionally, wi...
Fox News, OANN and Newsmax need to be held to account for spreading The Big Lie about the 2020 election, and for the network's ongoing role in spreading outright lies as truth. For America to heal, there must be oversight of media that violate minimal standards of impartiality and accuracy. Fox News, Newsmax and OANN need to be held to account for spreading The Big Lie about the 2020 election and for their ongoing role in spreading outright lies as truth. For America to heal, there must be media oversight that requires minimal standards of impartiality and accuracy. For our democracy to func...