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For more than a decade, it has felt to defenders of free society that we are peddling fruitlessly against the powerful current of authoritarianism. That current grew firmer, more dominant, as it swept in new nations from the shores of democracy and carried the world further toward illiberal abyss.

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social

1. BREAKING: Flávio Bolsonaro is refusing to concede Brazil's presidential election and says he will seek to have the election annulled after losing to President Lula.

26/10/26, 3:19 am7 reposts22 likes

Ami Fields-Meyer

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How many eulogies did we read -- indeed, how many did we write! -- for the free world? And who could blame us?

Ami Fields-Meyer

@fieldsmeyer.com

Many concluded, after 2024, as America selected a president who campaigned on a pledge to dismantle both domestic checks and balances and the postwar democratic order, that we were simply Victims of Events -- that history had caught up with us and this was our lot.

Ami Fields-Meyer

@fieldsmeyer.com

But it was not our lot. One by one, democratic antibodies have attacked the virus of authoritarianism. Our societies have fought back. People have fought back. Hungary evicted its “strongman” after sixteen years, delivering an electoral victory so decisive that he had no choice but to walk away.

Ami Fields-Meyer

@fieldsmeyer.com

India’s increasingly illiberal government was brought to its knees for the first time in recent memory -- and forced to change course on major policy -- in a wave of youth protests.