Another fascist hits the dirt in South Korea 🙏
The heroics of South Korea’s Democratic-led opposition were a welcome and riveting sight for supporters of democracy around the world. And they provided a lesson for Democrats and other Trump opponents in America.
The parallels between the two countries’ political situations are beyond eerie.
It may seem glib to immediately interpret another country’s crisis through the American political system. But the parallels between the two countries’ political situations are beyond eerie. Yoon narrowly defeated Lee in 2022 with just under 50 percent of the vote. “The political novice has been compared to the former United States president Donald Trump and has been prone to gaffes throughout the campaign,” reported the BBC at the time, “He had to walk back a comment that the authoritarian president Chun Doo-hwan, who was responsible for massacring protestors in 1980, was ‘good at politics.’”
Yoon’s victory, analysts told The New York Times, “was more a referendum on his liberal predecessor’s failures than an endorsement of Mr. Yoon.” Increasing inequality and rising housing prices stoked voter discontent with both politicians and immigrants. Yoon wooed young men angry at feminists and the MeToo movement. And in office, he has frequently called his critics “communists” and the media “fake news.”
Sound familiar?
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/south-korea-martial-law-president-democracy-trump-rcna182732
The parallels between the two countries’ political situations are beyond eerie.
It may seem glib to immediately interpret another country’s crisis through the American political system. But the parallels between the two countries’ political situations are beyond eerie. Yoon narrowly defeated Lee in 2022 with just under 50 percent of the vote. “The political novice has been compared to the former United States president Donald Trump and has been prone to gaffes throughout the campaign,” reported the BBC at the time, “He had to walk back a comment that the authoritarian president Chun Doo-hwan, who was responsible for massacring protestors in 1980, was ‘good at politics.’”
Yoon’s victory, analysts told The New York Times, “was more a referendum on his liberal predecessor’s failures than an endorsement of Mr. Yoon.” Increasing inequality and rising housing prices stoked voter discontent with both politicians and immigrants. Yoon wooed young men angry at feminists and the MeToo movement. And in office, he has frequently called his critics “communists” and the media “fake news.”
Sound familiar?
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/south-korea-martial-law-president-democracy-trump-rcna182732
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