{"id":16115,"date":"2025-03-29T07:04:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T07:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-trump-is-inspiring-wannabe-authoritarians-everywhere\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T07:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T07:04:52","slug":"how-trump-is-inspiring-wannabe-authoritarians-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-trump-is-inspiring-wannabe-authoritarians-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"How Trump Is Inspiring Wannabe Authoritarians Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When President Joseph R. Biden Jr. convened democracy summits at the White House in 2021 and 2023, he pointedly disinvited President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, a man he had once described an \u201cautocrat\u201d who deserved to be driven from office by voters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Tuesday, President Trump offered a much rosier assessment of the Turkish president, even as <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/26\/world\/europe\/turkey-istanbul-mayor-protests.html\" title=\"\">protesters filled the streets<\/a> following the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul, Mr. Erdogan\u2019s chief political rival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cA good leader,\u201d the president said of Mr. Erdogan during a meeting of his ambassadors at the White House. He made no mention of the arrest or the protests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since taking office 66 days ago, Mr. Trump has turned a central precept of American diplomacy on its head. He is embracing \u2014 rather than denouncing \u2014 fellow leaders who abandon democratic principles. The longstanding bipartisan effort to bolster democratic institutions around the globe has been replaced by a president who praises leaders who move toward autocracy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And Mr. Trump\u2019s own actions \u2014 taking revenge against his political rivals, attacking law firms, journalists and universities, and questioning the authority of the judiciary \u2014 are offering new models for democratically elected leaders in countries like Serbia and Israel who have already shown their willingness to push the boundaries of their own institutions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere\u2019s a great emboldening,\u201d said Rosa Balfour, the Europe director for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. \u201cWhat Trump says reverberates strongly here. But also what the United States does not do. It does not punish or condemn any attempt to undermine rule of law or democracy. There are no repercussions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Jane Harman, a former member of Congress and former president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, noted that Mr. Erdogan and other leaders around the world had been \u201cdrifting away\u201d from democratic principles for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2016, a faction in Mr. Erdogan\u2019s government attempted a coup to overthrow him. Since then, he has tightened control of the presidency by attacking the media, political opponents, the courts and other institutions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis has become a very different world, but I don\u2019t think Trump started it, and I don\u2019t think Trump is going to end it either,\u201d Ms. Harman said. And she noted that in at least a few places, Mr. Trump\u2019s return to power had prompted some voters to question the authoritarian leanings of candidates and parties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThink Germany,\u201d she said, referring to recent elections in the country. \u201cThe far right has risen in popularity, but it didn\u2019t win. And the backlash to Trump might have been part of the momentum that held it back.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump is not the first president to tolerate less-than-democratic actions from allies when they deemed it necessary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Biden offered a fist-bump to Crown Prince <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/14\/world\/middleeast\/biden-saudi-arabia-mbs.html\" title=\"\">Mohammed bin Salman<\/a>, Saudi Arabia\u2019s de facto ruler, even as he <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/07\/15\/world\/biden-israel-saudi-arabia-news\" title=\"\">blamed him<\/a> for the murder of the columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Mr. Biden also <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/21\/us\/politics\/biden-modi-visit.html\" title=\"\">worked with<\/a> Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, who has increasingly cracked down on dissent in his country, and \u2014 at times \u2014 with Mr. Erdogan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Mr. Trump\u2019s election has coincided with actions by elected leaders that appear to depart from the kind of democratic principles that America stood for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu no longer needs to contend with Mr. Biden\u2019s opposition to a long-planned overhaul of the courts, which many Israelis view as an attempt to control and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/27\/world\/middleeast\/israel-netanyahu-judges.html\" title=\"\">politicize the judiciary<\/a>. In 2023, Mr. Biden told reporters that Mr. Netanyahu \u201ccannot continue down this road\u201d of judicial changes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, with Mr. Trump in office, the Israeli leader faces no such pressure. This month, he <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/20\/world\/middleeast\/israel-netanyahu-shin-bet-ronen-bar.html\" title=\"\">fired the chief<\/a> of the country\u2019s domestic intelligence agency, a move seen as undermining its independence. Later, the cabinet approved a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/23\/world\/middleeast\/israel-attorney-general.html\" title=\"\">vote of no confidence<\/a> in the country\u2019s attorney general, prompting fresh accusations that Mr. Netanyahu is curbing the independence of the justice system, purging officials he considers disloyal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Thursday, Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s allies in Parliament voted to give themselves more power over the selection of the country\u2019s judges. The vote came after the prime minister gave a speech echoing Mr. Trump and saying that the action meant that \u201cthe deep state is in danger.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe U.S. is not going to put any pressure whatsoever on Netanyahu to respect the democratic institutions of his own country,\u201d Ms. Balfour said. \u201cNetanyahu feels that he has impunity in that respect.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Serbia, President Aleksandar Vucic has spent years attacking the media and other political opponents. Last month \u2014 as Mr. Trump dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development \u2014 Mr. Vucic sent police to raid organizations in his country, some of which had received money from the now largely shuttered American agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Authorities in Mr. Vucic\u2019s government <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/12\/world\/europe\/serbia-usaid-vucic-trump.html\" title=\"\">cited Mr. Trump\u2019s actions<\/a> in the United States as justification for moving against the organizations, including the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/crta.rs\/en\/about-us\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Centre for Research, Transparency and Accountability<\/a> and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gradjanske.org\/en\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Civic Initiatives<\/a>. They quoted Elon Musk, the multibillionaire who is running the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, who claimed, without evidence, that USAID was a \u201ccriminal organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two weeks after the raids in Serbia, Donald Trump Jr., the president\u2019s eldest son, traveled to Belgrade, the country\u2019s capital, to interview Mr. Vucic for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/19\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-jr-serbia.html\" title=\"\">his podcast<\/a>. In the interview, Mr. Vucic complained that he, like the American president, is opposed by \u201can entire liberal establishment from Washington and New York and L.A. going against you.\u201d He said the raids of the nongovernmental organizations were designed to root out corruption and financial mismanagement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump Jr. fawned over Mr. Vucic, describing what he called \u201can embrace of common sense, an embrace of law and order, of a shared national sense of identity.\u201d He criticized protesters angry about Mr. Vucic\u2019s recent actions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m sure the media will cover them only one way,\u201d Mr. Trump Jr. said. \u201cAnd now there\u2019s seemingly evidence that they are all tied in some form to the same left-wing actors here in America. That same propaganda machine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The president\u2019s son is not the only one echoing his father\u2019s language.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last week, after Mr. Erdogan\u2019s government jailed the mayor of Istanbul, one of Mr. Trump\u2019s senior diplomatic envoys spoke positively about Turkey\u2019s leader during an interview with the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cReally transformational,\u201d Steve Witkoff said of a recent telephone call between Mr. Trump and Mr. Erdogan. \u201cThere\u2019s just a lot of good, positive news coming out of Turkey right now as a result of that conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a professor of history at New York University, said Mr. Trump\u2019s words and actions \u2014 and those of his surrogates \u2014 are being watched by other leaders. She said the president\u2019s lack of condemnation of Mr. Erdogan following the arrest of the Istanbul mayor would have been noted by authoritarian-leaning presidents and prime ministers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe moves of Trump in this same direction,\u201d she said, \u201cembolden foreign leaders who know the U.S. is now an autocratic ally and there will be no consequences for repressive behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/29\/world\/europe\/trump-authoritarians-inspiration.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When President Joseph R. 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