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A low-turnout election gave a plurality of the popular vote to the Muslim Brotherhood, which came to power alone and proceeded to ignore good governance and alienate all except its most fervent followers.
Instead of trying to build non-partisan and competent regulatory institutions, all positions were stacked with political followers.
Contrary to what the followers of Friedrich von Hayek and Andrew Mellon have always claimed, economic readjustments do not happen when bankruptcies force labor and capital out of low-productivity, low-demand industries, but rather when booms pull labor and capital into high-productivity, high-demand industries.
For Anna Harare and his followers, the only solution is another state agency – a vast and all-powerful anti-corruption watchdog with the power to coerce and intimidate.
Their moral courage and social stature have, in turn, helped them to build mass support (measured by the tens of millions of their weibo followers).
The wall is very unpopular among the public, and only Trump’s most devoted followers view it as the answer to illegal immigration (or drug smuggling).
Sometimes, leaders have objectives that differ from those of a large part of their followers; rather than revealing the differences, they deceive their followers.
In contrast, other leaders with different objectives from their followers invest heavily in educating those who would oppose them to a different point of view.
In some instances, leaders find it impossible to educate their followers adequately in time, or their followers are too deeply divided to reach a consensus that will sustain collective action.
In such circumstances, some leaders may take a paternalist view and decide to deceive their followers for what they see as their larger or later good.
It is all too easy for leaders to convince themselves that they are telling a noble lie for the good of their followers, when in fact they are merely lying for political or personal convenience.
If Iraqi Shi’ite leader Muqtada al-Sadr and his followers chose to stop their own violence, it was not simply because of the superior firepower of the coalition forces.
He was able to attract attention mainly by delivering speeches and encouraging his followers to circulate the text.
He was reluctant to harness his followers’ nativism and economic insecurity to build an anti-system movement that might weaken the foundations of the country’s parliamentary democracy.
Even Putin’s truest followers are now beginning to speak of their leader and the results of his governance in impertinent and disrespectful ways.
When, like the Tianamen Square demonstrators, it met with an uncompromising government counter-attack, it soon became obvious that, however strange and fantastic its followers might seem from the outside, Party leaders viewed the movement as a menace They labeled it a xiejiao zuzhi, literally a “heretical” or “depraved” organization, a term of denigration long-reserved for “unorthodox” religious or spiritual groups based on superstition.
By detaining thousands of sect followers the Party may unwittingly transform an errant spiritual movement into a dangerous political force.
Even if ISIS does not currently have the capability to carry out cyber-attacks, it is unlikely to find it difficult to recruit followers with the requisite expertise; in the past, other terrorist and insurgent organizations, including Al Qaeda, have done just that.
While some will point to Barghouti’s election as a victory for the younger generation, not one of his followers will join him.
It will be along time before the “Dear Leader” will be able to convince his followers that a stock market, with its demand for corporatization and even privatisation, is at all connected to the primary stage of "juche.”
On the other hand, the Muslim Brotherhood, thought to be the single strongest opposition group in Egypt, are urging their followers to caste ballots and vote their conscience but not to give support to any ‘despotic, corrupt rulers.’
He proposed a corporatist system, and some of his followers spoke about a “third way” between capitalism and socialism.
Their followers appear to see in them harbingers, unjaded by history, of the change for which their societies are clamoring.
Would Piketty’s followers be nearly as enthusiastic about his proposed progressive global wealth tax if it were aimed at correcting the huge disparities between the richest countries and the poorest, instead of between those who are well off by global standards and the ultra-wealthy?
(Before the pageant, Trump took to Twitter to ask his followers whether they thought Putin would attend, and, if so, whether he would be Trump’s “new best friend.”)
But most are followers of Marine Le Pen, Geert Wilders, and other populist rabble-rousers, who promote plebiscites to undermine elected governments and abuse popular fears and resentments to clear their own paths to power.
The North Korean Missile CrisisNEW YORK – On January 2, then-President-elect Donald Trump, referring to North Korea’s effort to develop a nuclear weapon capable of reaching the United States, assured his Twitter followers, “It won’t happen!”
In parliament, the government has unveiled a portrait of Vinayak Savarkar, a pre-independence Hindu nationalist, one of whose followers assassinated Mahatma Gandhi.
But if the general public is forced to choose between popular social causes and the seemingly arcane, often misunderstood, and now mud-splattered notion of free trade, the outcome will likely not be a happy one for Adam Smith’s followers.
But followers of Corbynismo are wrong to infer that the ills of financial markets infect all other markets, all the time.
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