whether France or Turkey or romania whatever

emergency legislations are used to break human rights

they're just the worst idea ever

OHAL is a warzone

can't make turkey great again if it was never great

I did see a few headlines that he's lost a little bit of his populist momentum recently

>was never great

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Despite gaining so much control over the judiciary and media

>Turkey
>never great

😂

The Ottoman Empire was pretty cool

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Perhaps that's why he's making the snap election

I hope he loses or gets couped

He has lost his momentum

Absolutely.

or if he wins, he gets Turkey thrown out of NATO

He doesn't have the same support

That's the problem with riding the wave of populism

Is that it's incredibly difficult to get off of it

Without the wave just dumping you

He was riding the wave of religion

Populism is a good tool as long as you have actual policy behind it

^^

You *should* be a populist

Yeah.

Exactly.

nah

but you should be a populist liberal, conservative

you shouldn't *just* be a populist.

he was riding the wave of religion

And he fell of the wave.

of course

I'll concede to that condition

Now sometimes people define populist as being "changing your opinion to whatever the majority wants"

That kind of populism is bad

aye

well, assuming the populace has bad opinions

@Deleted User >never great
We had **16 empires** you cretin

@franti
Yeah, the fact the media decided to use this to hurt him is disgusting