OPINION: With the big three of the dictators’ club – Iran, Russia and China – facing domestic turmoil and sanity making a comeback at the ballot box, the long democratic winter is starting to break.
Though it’s too soon to declare global democracy’s 20-year recession over, 2022 is the year the world reached “peak autocrat”., Russia and China – facing domestic turmoil and sanity making a comeback at the ballot box, the long democratic winter is starting to break.
In Iran, mass protests triggered by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, a woman initially arrested for allegedly breaking Iran’s strict religious laws relating to the wearing of the hijab, have Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on tilt.against not just Xi Jinping’s economy-destroying COVID-zero zealotry but the man himself.
The thread tying these unrelated events together is citizens fed up not just with dictators but the inherently bad policies they impose and the lies used to justify them.
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