...Anne Applebaum is heroic...her erudition is far reaching...I read Twilight and found it chilling....but a must read to truly understand what's happening in America...
Bullshit. Under PIS right wing government in Poland everyone is better off. GDP growth is much better than under liberal government. Pensions are being increased like never before. This party look after people and only about themselves. You can’t call them authoritarian as everyone is having benefits. So all the Anne speech has nothing to reality in Poland.
I think she excellently explained what motivates systems based on power vs competence. However she's oddly fixated on right wing authoritarianism. She of all people should know authoritarianism can come with the guise of empathy and advocating for the victims of society; which is fundamental to left wing belief. This is precisely how Bolshevism started, and how the reds founded the soviet union. She's strangely blind to left wing authoritarianism, which there absolutely no shortage of that in history; most of all the soviet union, which she seems to be an expert on.
@@oldcremona surprisingly murderous authoritarianism isn't a partisan issue. Why does there need to be a "right wing" journalist. She wrote the foreword to The Gulag Archipelago books, the single greatest denunciation of the Soviet System to ever exist. However she still oddly believes authoritarianism can only come from the right lol. It's just nonsensical. You could also argue the author of the gulag books, Solzhenitsyn was a journalist.
