definition

Illiberal Democracy Has Elections Without Constraints

An 'illiberal democracy' as advocated by Viktor Orban means you have elections and popular will but the government is not restricted by checks and balances—it can do whatever it wants—and if this is the new form of conservatism, it has little to do with Reagan-era conservatism.

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Speaker

Francis Fukuyama

Evidence Quote

viktor orban that you um referred to as just having been defeated in hungary said that he was trying to run an illiberal democracy

Source

471 - The End Of History RevisitedMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:08:32 AM

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