Democracy faces tougher challenges as political Right beefs-up presence

It is becoming increasingly evident that the democracy-authoritarianism division would be a major polarity in international politics going forward.

- BY LYNN OCKERSZ

It shouldn't come as a surprise if quite a few major states of both East and West gain increasing inspiration from the 'world's mightiest democracy' under President Donald Trump from now and tout the core principles of democratic governance with impunity.

It is the political Right that would gain most weight in this evolving new scheme of things, whether it be the US itself, France, Israel or Turkey, to name just a few countries in the news. It is plain to see that the Right is unleashing its power with hardly a thought for the hard-being done to key democratic institutions.

What was being challenged by the mob most was the 'will of the people' which was manifest in the latter's choice of Joe Biden as President at the time. To date Trump does not accept that popular verdict and insists that the election in question was a flawed one. He does so in the face of enlightened pronouncements to the contrary.

US's Right's pro-state, Israel, is well on course to doing grave harm to its democratic institutions, with the country's judiciary being undermined now. To cite two recent examples to support this viewpoint, the Israeli parliament passed a law to empower the country's election officials to appoint judges, while Prime Minister Netanyahu has installed the new head of the country's prime security agency disregarding to the process a supreme court decision to retain the former head.