China’s trains may be fast—but hangdog democrats are wrong to think that autocracies have cracked the code of economic dynamism https://t.co/wL7dudHEEn ...

CONGRESSWOMAN KATHRYN CLARK OF MASSACHUSETTS. CONGRESSWOMAN, WELCOME TO TO THE TABLE, SO LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION. YOU LISTEN TO A LOT OF REPUBLICANS, RIGHT.YES. AND SO BY NOW YOU HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GAUGE HOW THEY MAKE AN ARGUMENT AND WHAT THE THRUST OF THE ARGUMENT IS, MEANING THERE'S AN END GAME, THERE'S A GOAL THEY'RE TRYING TO REACH. SO WHEN YOU GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE LAST SHUTDOWN AND THEY WERE ALL HYPED UP AND THEY WERE PRESSING AND THEY WERE THEY WERE TRYING TO BLOCK AND TACKLE DEMOCRATS INTO HAVING ...

RT Björn Höcke (@BjoernHoecke)Demokraten aller Länder schaut auf Deutschland!Zurzeit verhandeln deutsche Gerichte ernsthaft darüber, ob ich ein Redeverbot für politische Veranstaltungen erhalte! Mir steht das Grundrecht auf Ausübung der Meinungsfreiheit zu. Ich bin Mitglied eines Verfassungsorgans. Ich bin Oppositionsführer eines deutschen Parlaments.Und dann ist da noch das Parteienprivileg: Eine neutrale Verwaltung soll also in Zukunft entscheiden dürfen, mit wem eine Partei Wahlkampf machen darf und mit ...

You know what that said when you got the word that the court looked at the facts and went, get out of here. Well, the system in this case held. The system THAT IS THE BEAUTY OF A GRAND JURY OR ANY JURY, RIGHT.THE FOUNDERS ACTUALLY DESIGNED IT FOR EXACTLY THIS PURPOSE IN MIND. THAT YOU COULD HAVE A ROGUE RUNAWAY PRESIDENCY THAT'S GOING TO WEAPONIZE THE GOVERNMENT against political opponents, as we have in this case. But a jury of the peers are going to say, no, not on our watch.We're not going to do it. That ...

If Western democracies became less liberal, there is no reason to think that they would magically become stern but efficient technocracies, as China or Singapore claim to be https://t.co/wL7dudHEEn ...

Take Serbia. It has all the trappings of a democracy. It does not lock up journalists for what they write. Yet in dozens of ways it makes their jobs and lives difficult, unless they support the government https://t.co/V9leU3nIkp ...

nobody hates actual democracy more than blobslop media that preens 24/7 about fake threats to democracy, here bloomberg praises france voter-proofing its gov’t so Macronyism can’t be voted out https://t.co/qCc9L5Vc06Bloomberg (@business):President Emmanuel Macron has been handed a golden chance to insulate one of France’s most important institutions from the far right https://t.co/h64yEwTlqZ ...

From @WSJFreeEx via @WSJOpinion: Survey the rhetoric of left-leaning politicians and you’ll notice a liberal employment of this phrase “our democracy,” writes @JackButler4815https://t.co/bfTvp7Y3ym ...

RT MUSKOSOPHY (@muskosophy)“If the president cannot get things implemented as a reflection of the will of the people, then what we have is not a democracy, but a bureaucracy.”– Elon Musk https://t.co/LQSSrmwtKB ...

More than three dozen former lawmakers of a pro-democracy party in Thailand face a lifetime ban from politics https://t.co/09RdfMSMUY ...