Tyrants are losing wars

Photo by the Kremlin via Wikimedia.org“And the only way to fight the bastards off in the end is through intelligence.” — Enoch Root“In human life it's also true/ The strong will try to conquer you/ And that is what you must expect/ Unless you use your intellect” — MerlinFive years ago, I wrote a post about the wave of authoritarianism sweeping the world:That unhappy trend has continued. Freedom House’s 2026 report is subtitled “The Growing Shadow of Autocracy”, and finds that freedom continues to decline across the globe:Source: Freedom HouseV-DEM’s 2026 report, subtitled “Unraveling the Democratic Era?”, delivers the same message:Source: V-DEMBoth organizations note the rapid deterioration in freedom under Donald Trump’s second administration, including attacks on free and fair elections, persecution of critics in the press, and the rise of a violent and unaccountable security state. In the 20th century, the U.S. was the Arsenal of Democracy — as the world’s most powerful country,…