FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoIlliberalism Is Not Inevitable. If Viktor Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.www.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square182linkfedilinkarrow-up1671arrow-down114 cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1657arrow-down1external-linkIlliberalism Is Not Inevitable. If Viktor Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.www.theatlantic.comFoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square182linkfedilink cross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down2·3 months agoIf I were to Americanize it: This is essentially if Ted Cruz, or better yet Chris Christie, beat Donald Trump in the general election. Undeniably a good thing as it’d mean no more Trump and it’s kinda humilating for him. But it means… yeah. One of them at the helm.
minus-squareGuy Ingonito@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-23 months agoSomeone on Bluesky said it was like if the Dems had lost to Trump 4 times and then ran Mit Romney and won by a historic landslide
minus-squareZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·3 months agoThat’s a better comparison, actually. Mitt very publicly doesn’t like Trump, but voted with him like 80% of the time.
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months ago then ran Mit Romney Dems wouldn’t go that far left.
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·3 months ago Undeniably a good thing Actually it’s quite easy to deny that Ted Cruz or Chris Christie would be a good thing. This is like some real Dem thinking.
minus-squareZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoThat’s why there was a whole rest of the sentence.
If I were to Americanize it: This is essentially if Ted Cruz, or better yet Chris Christie, beat Donald Trump in the general election. Undeniably a good thing as it’d mean no more Trump and it’s kinda humilating for him.
But it means… yeah. One of them at the helm.
Someone on Bluesky said it was like if the Dems had lost to Trump 4 times and then ran Mit Romney and won by a historic landslide
That’s a better comparison, actually. Mitt very publicly doesn’t like Trump, but voted with him like 80% of the time.
Dems wouldn’t go that far left.
Actually it’s quite easy to deny that Ted Cruz or Chris Christie would be a good thing.
This is like some real Dem thinking.
That’s why there was a whole rest of the sentence.