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Last Checked Aug. 26, 2022

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Fri Aug 05 02:25:44 +0000 2022

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Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

In stable democracies, rich people often get into politics. In corrupt democracies, politics are a means of enrichment. Not mere lobbying and kickbacks, but wielding power directly to shake down companies, to loot the state and the people. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 5, 2022

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Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

What Orban has most in common with Trumpists is they view democracy only as a vehicle to its destruction. The demagoguery, nationalism, racism, are means. Win, then undermine and control the institutions for perpetual power and with it, money. https://t.co/iB28QO9Xp4 — PolitiTweet.org

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is in the U.S. to speak to one of the nation's largest gatherings of conserva… https://t.co/2vKLE6ayQJ

Posted Aug. 5, 2022

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Demagogues can be terrible for many reasons, but pull back the curtain and you always find them and their followers filling their pockets. It’s banal, pathetic, and not as interesting as grand ideological and psychological analyses, but mostly they’re just thieves. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 5, 2022

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