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.
It’s a shame that people who grew up with the peace provided by the eu are so easily persuaded to leave it behind
“Populist billionaire” is quite the oxymoron
Oh, there’s definitely more than one moron involved here.
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.
Another one bites the dust.
The ancient Greeks considered electoral politics to be a form of oligarchy, as it favored the rich inherently.
Please just take ours!
Nothing good is allowed to happen ever again.
Scary
The existence of billionaires is an affront to humanity.
