Far-Right Menace: The End of the World as They Know It

"Far-right" Alternative für Deutschland winning 20.7 percent of the vote in the German elections, it is clearly the end of the world as we know it, says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: We are in the midst of a global fight between Western liberal democracy and authoritarian government.

In this fight, the U.S. has just switched sides and signed up with the authoritarian camp, he says.

So, is using the U.S. intelligence community with the able assistance of NED and USAID to manipulate elections, as in Ukraine in 2014 , a way to “support democracy?” Or is it just stupid IC bureaucrats doing what bureaucrats do, and Making Things Worse until DOGE comes along and stops them? Christopher Chantrill @chrischantrill blogs at The Commoner Manifesto and runs the go-to site on US government finances, usgovernmentspending.com. Also get his American Manifesto and his Road to the Middle Class . Image: Public Domain.