{"id":162545,"date":"2018-05-04T00:58:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T04:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=162545"},"modified":"2018-05-08T23:05:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T03:05:32","slug":"time-magazine-includes-duterte-in-strongmen-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/04\/time-magazine-includes-duterte-in-strongmen-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Magazine includes Duterte in \u2018strongmen\u2019 cover"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Time Magazine\u2019s cover story entitled \u201cThe ‘Strongmen Era’ Is Here. Here\u2019s What It Means for You\u201d by Ian Bremmer discussed the similarities of the different country leaders but only chose four to grace the issue\u2019s cover, namely: Russian President Vladimir Putin, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the Philippine President. (Photo<\/a>: Ian Bremmer\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The latest issue of the renowned magazine\u2019s international edition included President Rodrigo Roa Duterte in its cover as one of the leaders heading the \u2018rise of the strongmen.\u2019<\/p>\n

Time Magazine\u2019s cover story entitled \u201cThe ‘Strongmen Era’ Is Here. Here\u2019s What It Means for You\u201d by Ian Bremmer discussed the similarities of the different country leaders but only chose four to grace the issue\u2019s cover, namely: Russian President Vladimir Putin, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the Philippine President.<\/p>\n

Bremmer, a political scientist listed different leaders in\u00a0the magazine’s May 14, 2018 issue, stressing that the trend of \u201cmen who never let law undermine order\u201d is not only confined in the United States (US) through its President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn every region of the world, changing times have boosted public demand for more muscular, assertive leadership. These tough-talking populists promise to protect \u2018us\u2019 from \u2018them.\u2019 Depending on who\u2019s talking, \u2018them\u2019 can mean the corrupt elite or the grasping poor; foreigners or members of racial, ethnic or religious minorities,\u201d the article read.<\/p>\n

\u201cOr disloyal politicians, bureaucrats, bankers or judges. Or lying reporters. Out of this divide, a new archetype of leader has emerged. We\u2019re now in the strongman era,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

The Philippine President\u2019s campaign to eradicate illegal drugs was the main topic associated to his name.<\/p>\n

Bremmer described Duterte as \u201ca former mayor who talked more like a Mob boss than a President on his promises to wipe out the drug trade with his own brand of justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apart from the mentioned, other leaders branded as a \u201cstrongman\u201d were Chinese President Xi Jinping, former Thailand Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, former Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega, former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n

Bremmer continued on by describing these leaders as \u201cusually the ones exerting\u201d the populist \u201cpressure, and their systems allow them to protect their advantages by changing the rules of the political game as needed. And nothing has made it easier for them to do so than advances in technology.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is Trumps place in all this? The US President has expressed sincere admiration for the likes of Putin, Xi, al-Sisi, and Duterte,\u201d the article further wrote, saying that while the US President \u201ccomplains and attacks,\u201d he cannot avoid the rulings of the country\u2019s political system.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean there\u2019s nothing to worry about. The impact this President has had on U.S. politics\u2013including the very fact that he was able to get elected\u2013has exposed holes in the systemic makeup of what was once the West\u2019s beacon of democracy,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

Bremmer then noted that the \u201cmost worrying element\u201d of the strongmen era is \u201cthe message that it sends.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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