Opposition
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The problem is that the largest official
opposition
party is now the populist AfD.
Moreover, the share of the Bundestag held by
opposition
parties that are only semi-loyal to liberal democracy – the AfD and its left-wing counterpart Die Linke (the Left) – now approaches one-quarter.
Not since the Weimar Republic has a far-right party been the largest
opposition
force, or have anti-liberal forces controlled such a large share of the Bundestag.
Had the SPD remained in opposition, as it vowed to do after its poor election result, it could have spent the next four years renewing its platform and membership, while acting as a strong challenger to both Merkel and the right- and left-wing populists.
But now the SPD seems to think that being in power, by joining the ruling coalition, is automatically better than being in opposition, no matter the cost.
Almost every major US state, city, and company has now pledged to do more to ensure that their country can meet its commitments, despite the Trump administration’s
opposition.
By following an eloquent survivor of the Parkland massacre, 1.66 million Twitter users have signaled their support for stronger gun-control regulations, and their
opposition
to the US gun lobby.
Vocal
opposition
from moderate voters is obviously one such cost, though the radical right may be indifferent to it.
The
opposition
to health-care reform is a similar cause of bemusement.
Yet Obama’s attempts to reform health care have run into hysterical
opposition.
This also fuels
opposition
to government intervention, and to “stimulus” policies, which are supposedly redundant, if not harmful, since the events that require them cannot happen (but do).
Then, after the formation of the current grand coalition government, the AfD became the main
opposition
party.
Putting aside the Israeli government’s well-known skepticism about Iran’s sincerity and intentions, to suggest that Saudi Arabia’s
opposition
simply has to do with geopolitical competition with nearby Iran is to overlook one of the main factors driving the current crises in the Middle East.
He made the right choice before the Iraq war - America's intervention was never justified and has yielded a terrible failure - and so found himself in sync with an emerging European, even global,
opposition
to the Bush administration.
The Social Democrats also benefited by supporting the US after the September 11 th terrorist attacks--a popular position that thus pre-empted the non-socialist
opposition.
Moreover, Japan’s powerful agricultural interest groups, especially the Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives, may strengthen their
opposition
to both a trilateral FTA with China and South Korea and the TPP with the US.
But if they act, domestic political
opposition
would likely be so severe as to drive them from power.
One advantage for China, however, in pursuing an FTA strategy is that it is still an authoritarian state, and thus could overrule domestic
opposition
far more easily than could governments in Japan or South Korea.
But it, too, will have to face strong
opposition
from domestic agricultural interest groups and manufacturing sectors, which might mobilize even more strongly than they did in opposing the FTA with the US.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s Kadima party,
opposition
leader Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, and Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s Labor party all fall – with only secondary variations – within a centrist consensus, which also reflects a popular national consensus.
The country recently completed a well-run election in which the
opposition
took power.
The political
opposition
– divided and ineffectual – was reinforced by a hybrid and loose military wing operating under the banner of “The Free Syrian Army,” and by hundreds of jihadis who entered Syria through porous borders and began to launch both military action and terrorist activity.
The opposition, political and military, could not topple the regime, and the regime could not quash the
opposition.
Externally, Russia and Iran acted as the regime’s main supporters, while Western countries, Turkey, and Arab states like Saudi Arabia and Qatar extended limited support to different
opposition
groups.
This pattern of steady erosion has now ended, with senior military and other officials joining the
opposition
in increasing numbers.
These defections have weakened the regime, reinforced the opposition, and sent a message of inevitable collapse.
Significantly, whereas the regime previously sought to downplay the challenge posed by the opposition, Syrian state television has covered the fighting in Damascus extensively.
Most of the forces that have kept the regime in place for the last 16 months are still there, the
opposition
remains divided, and the US and its Western allies are still shy of exerting full pressure on Assad’s government.
In the absence of an effective, well organized, and internationally recognized opposition, the regime’s downfall could be followed by anarchy, all-out sectarian civil war, secessionist movements, and de facto partition.
Opposition
to environmental action – from the fossil-fuel industry, political parties, and portions of the media – has been formidable.
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