{"id":4108,"date":"2020-02-06T16:14:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T23:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/?p=4108"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:19:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:19:28","slug":"the-light-that-failed-why-the-west-is-losing-the-fight-for-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/the-light-that-failed-why-the-west-is-losing-the-fight-for-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stephen Holmes &amp; Ivan Krastev (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Krastev_TheLightThatFailed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4110 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Krastev_TheLightThatFailed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Krastev_TheLightThatFailed.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Krastev_TheLightThatFailed-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One the most rigorous and coherent cases for why &amp; how the current anti-liberal backlash started and endures. Quite repetitive but worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Holmes &amp; Ivan Krastev (2020) One the most rigorous and coherent cases for why &amp; how the current anti-liberal backlash started and endures. Quite repetitive but worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","category-civilization","category-development"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4108"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4162,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions\/4162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}