Populist, billionaire and self-proclaimed “Trumpist” Andrej Babis won the Czech parliamentary election Saturday in a political comeback that put the country on a course away from supporting Ukraine and toward Hungary and Slovakia, which have taken a pro-Russian path.
Vlad Vexler has been talking for a while about how trumpism and putinism are not things that infect Europe but representations of a global phenomenon that had European roots as well. We need to stop seeing these are weird exceptions and start talking about this new wave of authoritarianism has a very high chance of being the European default in the 2030s.