{"id":14035,"date":"2024-06-25T11:45:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T11:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14035"},"modified":"2024-06-25T11:45:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T11:45:19","slug":"india-just-showed-the-world-how-to-fight-an-authoritarian-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14035","title":{"rendered":"India just showed the world how to\u00a0fight\u00a0an authoritarian on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“the BJP held just 240 seats. They not only underperformed expectations, they actually lost their parliamentary majority. While Modi will remain prime minister, he will do so at the helm of a coalition government \u2014 meaning that he will depend on other parties to stay in office, making it harder to continue his ongoing assault on Indian democracy<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“after looking at the information that is available and speaking with several leading experts on Indian politics, there are at least three conclusions that I\u2019m comfortable drawing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, voters punished Modi for putting his Hindu nationalist agenda ahead of fixing India\u2019s unequal economy. Second, Indian voters had some real concerns about the decline of liberal democracy under BJP rule. Third, the opposition parties waged a smart campaign that took advantage of Modi\u2019s vulnerabilities on the economy and democracy.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/354424\/india-election-results-2024-modi-congress-economy-democracy-liberalism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“the BJP held just 240 seats. They not only underperformed expectations, they actually lost their parliamentary majority. While Modi will remain prime minister, he will do so at the helm of a coalition government \u2014 meaning that he will depend on other parties to stay in office, making it harder to continue his ongoing assault on Indian democracy.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“after looking at the information that is available and speaking with several leading experts on Indian politics, there are at least three conclusions that I\u2019m comfortable drawing.
\nFirst, voters punished Modi for putting his Hindu nationalist agenda ahead of fixing India\u2019s unequal economy. Second, Indian voters had some real concerns about the decline of liberal democracy under BJP rule. Third, the opposition parties waged a smart campaign that took advantage of Modi\u2019s vulnerabilities on the economy and democracy.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/354424\/india-election-results-2024-modi-congress-economy-democracy-liberalism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[431,372,1084,83,1178,494,84,1021,479],"class_list":["post-14035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-democracy","tag-election","tag-hindu-nationalism","tag-india","tag-minority","tag-modi","tag-muslims","tag-nationalism","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14036,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035\/revisions\/14036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}