{"id":210562,"date":"2026-02-14T21:59:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T21:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=210562"},"modified":"2026-02-14T21:59:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T21:59:01","slug":"we-asked-activists-from-authoritarian-regimes-what-they-wish-theyd-known-sooner-heres-what-they-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=210562","title":{"rendered":"We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they\u2019d known sooner. Here\u2019s what they said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they\u2019ve learned about authoritariansDonald Trump makes no secret of his admiration for strongmen like Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orb\u00e1n or El Salvador\u2019s Nayib Bukele. Last month, he praised Orb\u00e1n\u2019s hardline stance on immigration and urged European leaders to show more \u201crespect\u201d for the president&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/09\/experts-authoritarian-regimes-trump\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they\u2019ve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210562-we-asked-activists-from-authoritarian-regimes-what-they-wish-theyd-known-sooner-heres-what6990f02789e9b.jpg",140,112,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210562-we-asked-activists-from-authoritarian-regimes-what-they-wish-theyd-known-sooner-heres-what6990f02789e9b.jpg",140,112,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210562-we-asked-activists-from-authoritarian-regimes-what-they-wish-theyd-known-sooner-heres-what6990f02789e9b.jpg",140,112,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210562-we-asked-activists-from-authoritarian-regimes-what-they-wish-theyd-known-sooner-heres-what6990f02789e9b.jpg",140,112,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210562-we-asked-activists-from-authoritarian-regimes-what-they-wish-theyd-known-sooner-heres-what6990f02789e9b.jpg",140,112,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210562-we-asked-activists-from-authoritarian-regimes-what-they-wish-theyd-known-sooner-heres-what6990f02789e9b.jpg",140,112,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210562-we-asked-activists-from-authoritarian-regimes-what-they-wish-theyd-known-sooner-heres-what6990f02789e9b.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210562-we-asked-activists-from-authoritarian-regimes-what-they-wish-theyd-known-sooner-heres-what6990f02789e9b.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210562-we-asked-activists-from-authoritarian-regimes-what-they-wish-theyd-known-sooner-heres-what6990f02789e9b.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210562-we-asked-activists-from-authoritarian-regimes-what-they-wish-theyd-known-sooner-heres-what6990f02789e9b.jpg",140,112,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">Europe<\/a>","tag_info":"Europe","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/210563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}