Article in The Guardian by Owen Jones, 10/29/25
Headline: “From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles”
Subhead: “We’re watching the Orbánisation of the US – and as in Hungary, control of the media is key to consolidating power”
“Democracy may be dying in the US. Whether the patient receives emergency treatment in time will determine whether the condition becomes terminal. Before Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, I warned of ‘Orbánisation’ – in reference to Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán. There, democracy was not extinguished by firing squads or the mass imprisonment of dissidents, but by slow attrition. . .”
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