{"id":1006,"date":"2026-10-30T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forum-new-economy.org\/podcast\/the-demystification-of-autocrats\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T12:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:06:28","slug":"the-demystification-of-autocrats","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/forum-new-economy.org\/en\/podcast\/the-demystification-of-autocrats\/","title":{"rendered":"The Demystification of Autocrats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is driving this? And is it the beginning of the end of this nightmare? Thomas Fricke and Martin Kaelble discuss this in the new episode of New Economy Sounds.  <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-container brlbs-cmpnt-content-blocker brlbs-cmpnt-with-individual-styles\" data-borlabs-cookie-content-blocker-id=\"spotify\" data-borlabs-cookie-content=\"PGlmcmFtZSB0aXRsZT0iU3BvdGlmeSBFbWJlZDogRGllIEVudHphdWJlcnVuZyBkZXIgQXV0b2tyYXRlbiIgc3R5bGU9ImJvcmRlci1yYWRpdXM6IDEycHgiIHdpZHRoPSI2MjQiIGhlaWdodD0iMzUxIiBmcmFtZWJvcmRlcj0iMCIgYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuIGFsbG93PSJhdXRvcGxheTsgY2xpcGJvYXJkLXdyaXRlOyBlbmNyeXB0ZWQtbWVkaWE7IGZ1bGxzY3JlZW47IHBpY3R1cmUtaW4tcGljdHVyZSIgbG9hZGluZz0ibGF6eSIgc3JjPSJodHRwczovL29wZW4uc3BvdGlmeS5jb20vZW1iZWQvc2hvdy8wVWhNR0IzUW8wRlBuQjNEdkJkRnlaL3ZpZGVvP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9b2VtYmVkIj48L2lmcmFtZT4=\"><div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-preset-b brlbs-cmpnt-cb-spotify\"> <div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-thumbnail\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/forum-new-economy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/spotify-placeholder-scaled.jpg')\"><\/div> <div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-main\"> <div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-content\"> <p class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-description\">You are currently viewing placeholder content from <strong>Spotify<\/strong>. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that this will result in data being shared with third parties.<\/p> <a class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-provider-toggle\" href=\"#\" data-borlabs-cookie-show-provider-information role=\"button\">More Information<\/a> <br> <div class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-buttons\"> <a class=\"brlbs-cmpnt-cb-btn\" href=\"#\" data-borlabs-cookie-accept-service role=\"button\" style=\"display: inherit\">Accept the required service and unlock the content<\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the US midterms, it is becoming clear that voters are set to punish Donald Trump. Right-wing populists are losing ground elsewhere too &#8211; whether in Brazil, Serbia, or Sweden.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":861,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-1006","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-new-economy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-new-economy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-new-economy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/podcast"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-new-economy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-new-economy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}