Putin and Xi: Authoritarianism Fails Again

It always does, in the end

Two guys whose reputations have taken a hit (CC 4.0, photo from www.kremlin.ru)

Let me tell you about a time when democracy seemed to be faltering — when authoritarian governments looked like they had far more promise than messy representative ones. At the time, a number of democracies around the world had failed to deal well with the aftermaths of war, pandemic, and economic upheaval. Populations that were weary of watching…