One of the biggest threats to liberal democracy comes from a region that was once considered its brightest horizon: Eastern Europe. Why does right-wing populism have such allure there? I asked the Bulgarian-born political scientist Ivan Krastev:

One of the biggest threats to liberal democracy comes from a region that was once considered its brightest horizon: Eastern Europe. Why does right-wing populism have such allure there? I asked the Bulgarian-born political scientist Ivan Krastev: pic.twitter.com/ZF1HDJxTlX

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