00:00I think we have a serious crisis of Western democracies, and we need to be very careful that we're not
00:09losing it, because there's a global backsliding away from democracy towards autocracy, and we have to be very careful not
00:20to be swept up in that.
00:21Now, if you look at the last six months or so, then one could be slightly optimistic, because there were
00:31elections in Hungary, Serbia, Brazil, yesterday in the United States, where the anti-democratic forces have lost.
00:43And to be perfectly clear, I'm saying that, knowing full well that the Republican Party used to be a party
00:52participating in democracy, but frankly, at the moment, they aren't.
00:57They have turned into a party of autocracy, and so the fact that they lost so big yesterday is extremely
01:06important for global democracy everywhere.
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