My first message in today’s #SOTEU debate: When dictators cooperate, democracies must work even more closely together. The enemies of our democracy exist inside and outside our borders. We know it. We must expose the risks posed by populists and autocrats and defend our https://t.co/75xkA59CG8 #SOTEU #Democracy #Populism #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.
No wonder Witkoff is thinking about retirement. He's made his fortune and now gets to play diplomat. But one may tell him that Putin isn't retiring. Autocrats don't retire, especially when they're responsible for war crimes. They take their job with them to the grave. Literally #Putin #Autocrats #WarCrimes #RU
Trump and his family have accumulated billions of dollars in office. Other democracies have reclaimed plundered wealth from fallen autocrats. Some lessons for Americans from Nigeria, Peru, and the Philippines to claw back wealth from toppled autocrats https://t.co/dxaYDT8fCW #WealthInequality #PoliticalCorruption #Accountability #NG #PE #PH
Trump both fears and respects the autocrats who rule Russia, China, and North Korea, and so he dares not cross them. Instead, he is seeking to assuage the psychic injury of his loss in Iran by kicking US allies, without fear that they will kick him back https://t.co/pP2dl01s5w #Trump #Autocrats #USForeignPolicy #RU #CN #KP #IR
Trump's habit of changing his mind is a classic tactic of the power play of autocrats. Mind-changing is a form of control. It means that everyone, including your own advisers, have to keep listening to you, have to keep adjusting to your new view https://t.co/t0hPKzi9KO #Trump #Autocracy #PowerPlay #Nospecificcountriesarementionedinthetweet.
Aspiring autocrats and authoritarians often seek to marginalize not just the law but also courts. Perhaps US Supreme Court has maneuvered in hopes of avoiding it. The problem is that it has wildly empowered Trump, and betrayed core constitutional values https://t.co/nI3TKFgFub #SupremeCourt #Authoritarianism #ConstitutionalValues #US
“Today, our world needs a strong voice in defense of democracy and human rights. The space for freedom in the world is shrinking under the attack of new autocrats.” — Andrzej @poczobut, 2025 #Sakharov Prize Laureate https://t.co/47CRA5RwLJ #Democracy #HumanRights #Freedom #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #nocountrycodesareapplicable.
Some think I’m just highlighting the excesses of the liberal-authoritarian @magyarpeterMP regime in Budapest because I live here. But the reality is that, as this behaviour becomes normalised, it will spread across the EU. A centralised Brussels ruling over local autocrats. 🇪🇺 #Budapest #EU #Authoritarianism #HU #EU
This is key. People called Trump “authoritarian” but when he won both times he accepted the power given to him and worked within it. True autocrats like @magyarpeterMP want TOTAL power and will settle for no less. These are genuinely dangerous “leaders” in a Western system. 🇭🇺 #Trump #Authoritarianism #Leadership #HU
The much-benighted “saviour of Hungarian democracy” has turned out to be an authoritarian huckster who is trying to overthrow the Hungarian constitutional order by threatening people. You can find how to establish these tinpot autocrats in Applebaum’s “how to” manual. https://t.co/qVNBQppZVo #HungarianDemocracy #Authoritarianism #PoliticalManipulation #HU
MAGA = MEGA CORRUPTION When oligarchs, foreign autocrats, lobbyists, crypto scammers and pay-for-play networks dominate politics, democracy is under attack. Patriotism means defending your republic from corruption — foreign and domestic. The Free World needs: 🇺🇸 Transparency 🇪🇺 https://t.co/zFZbv12ZOA #MAGA #Corruption #Democracy #US #EU
