On March 28 Americans and others internationally took to the streets in the millions and across the country in No Kings protests. These protests are directed against the Trump administration which has been using ICE to terrorize communities across the country according to an ethnocratic antiimmigration agenda and launched an illegal war on Iran with the help of Israel which will negatively affect cost of living for Americans for as long as it goes on. The Trump administration has done these thin

The regime of Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party in Hungary has for the last 16 years been a model for the populist attempt to remove liberalism from democracy. Right-wing populists naturally seek a democratic mandate against corrupt elites but want to be unrestrained in the use of state power to repress minorities and political opponents deemed outside the community and interests of common folk. The result in Hungary since the early 2010s has been an autocracy with checks on Orban's executive au

Since the wave of republican revolutions from the 1700s to the 1800s the geoculture (the set of dominant norms of the modern world-system) has been dominated by liberal ideology. The major selling point of liberalism has been that it is about liberty; that it is the political ideology most concerned with putting human beings in charge of their own destiny. There is however a truth about liberalism and liberty that is embarrassing for liberals and which they have gone to great lengths to cover up