> Meanwhile the real guilty people are 'let off' (non-pursued) […] On how modern autocracies work: > Day in and day out, the [Orbán] regime works more through

> Meanwhile the real guilty people are 'let off' (non-pursued) […] On how modern autocracies work: > Day in and day out, the [Orbán] regime works more through inducements than through intimidation. The courts are packed, and forgiving of the regime’s allies. Friends of the government win state contracts at high prices and borrow on easy terms from the central bank. Those on the inside grow rich by favoritism; those on the outside suffer from the general deterioration of the economy. As one shrewd observer told me on a recent visit, “The benefit of controlling a modern state is less the power to persecute the innocent, more the power to protect the guilty.” * https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-build-an-autocracy/513872/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-... * https://archive.li/ZIzCm https://archive.li/ZIzCm