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Illiberal Democracy
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Apr 15, 2026
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Heather Cox Richardson·Apr 15, 2026
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Illiberal democracy functions by using electoral support to seize power and enrich leaders while actively degrading economic conditions and eroding public well-being.
“what it comes down to in Hungary and what it certainly will come down to in the United States is that Orbán and his cronies used the the votes that they got from people to put themselves in power and then to enrich themselves while the actual economic growth and the conditions of people in the count”
Heather Cox Richardson · Apr 2026 · 2 episodes · 334K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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