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First, to state the obvious, this order is an obvious smokescreen, invoking a grab bag of far-right bogeyman as means to justify an authoritarian power grab. And second, and of immediate ...

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In authoritarianism, power is concentrated in the hands of a single leader or a small elite, whose decisions are made without regard for the people’s will. This may be happening, as a change in ...

But the impact of a stolen mandate continues: the country is in the midst of creeping authoritarianism, with a regime bereft of legitimacy trying to dismantle the edifice of a constitutional ...