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Somebody going by the handle of "AIG" at Michael J.Totten's place writes in some criticism of Berlinski's article, including the following brief snippet:
"She claims this is about "authoritarianism". It is not. The people (or rather the forces which bring their sheep to protest) are far more authoritarian than Erdogan. This is the professional Left."Yet the two points are not mutually exclusive: it is entirely possible for the people protesting to be protesting about the "authoritarian" tendencies of Erdogan's government, whilst also being in favour of another kind of authoritarianism themselves. Certainly it's a logical contradiction, but that doesn't mean it should be dismissed as an explanation.
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