South Korea went through some things. Their Trumpy president tried to seize extraconstitutional power and it fell on its face. Yoon is part of the misogyny to authoritarianism pipeline that explains at least a part of Trump's appeal, and he is certainly part of the broadly authoritarian populism that rests on various grievances.
Honestly, the willful decision to ignore the role that gender played in Trump's victory is baffling. Trump won 3,000,000 more votes than he did in 2020. Harris won 6,500,000 fewer votes than Biden. This was not simply a Biden-to-Trump phenomenon, it was a bunch of people who refused to go vote for Harris. In 2016, it was a low turnout election with Clinton receiving about 9,000,000 fewer votes than Harris and 15,500,00 fewer than Biden.
Sorry, but Democrats should be very wary about running a woman in 2028. As the party of "women" they need to avoid doubling down on that identity, if they want to win enough male votes to actually win the election and pursue policy goals that benefit women. In Nigeria, the most successful candidates are those that represent one ethnic group, but come from the opposite group. The idea is that the party is the policy, the candidate is the vehicle.
Anyway, Korea was able to smack down the autogolpe attempt fairly easily. President Yoon was already embattled, because he did unpopular things. He resorted to the attempt to seize dictatorial powers precisely because he was unpopular. Ideally, Trump's popularity wanes quickly as he does bad stuff and then America's semi-authoritarian party remembers than it is American after all.
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