Chris Rufo, a rightwing culture-war celebrity and close Ron DeSantis ally, has maintained a close relationship with IM-1776, a ādissident rightā magazine that regularly showers praise on dictators and authoritarians, puffs racist ideologues, and attacks liberal democracy.
The outletās editors and writers ā many of them so-called āanonsā working under pseudonyms ā have variously advocated for the repeal of the Civil Rights Act; celebrated figures such as the āUnabomberā Ted Kaczynski and the proto-fascist Italian nationalist Gabriele DāAnnunzio; and advanced conspiracy theories about the Covid pandemic, and what they term the āregimeā, a leftist power structure that they imagine unites the state, large corporations, universities and the media.
ā¦attacks liberal democracy.
What kind of reporting is this? There is no such thing as āliberal democracyā in my view. You either let people have a voice or you donāt.
The Guardian is a paper based in Manchester, England. Fairly certain that they do not mean āliberalā in the American sense meaning left-wing, progressive politics. They mean it in the classical sense meaning free.
Ah, okay then. The phrasing seems odd to me.