Disturbing post today on Hungary's authoritarian revolution. It sounds like a more extreme version of what has been happening in Wisconsin, Michigan and other states in the United States.
The post appears on Paul Krugman's web site, but it is written by Kim Lane Scheppele, Director of the Law and Public Policy program at Princeton University.
It sounds like what is happening in Hungary is a reappearance of the kind of authoritarian regime that has characterized Hungary in the past, including the notorious period of Admiral Horthy's dominance from 1920 to 1946. The forms of governance may resemble those of democracy, but the content is increasingly that of authoritarianism.
By the way, Newt Gingrich's recent diatribes against judges would fit right in with the new Hungarian system.
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