Steve Schmidt Quotes
Liberal democracy is in regression all over the world, and it's a dangerous thing.
Schmidt, Steve. Interview. The 11th Hour with Brian Williams, MSNBC, 2018.
The Eurozone economy was in recession as part of the Great Recession and nationalist, racist, Islamophobic and xenophobic minority parties were becoming stronger and more popular as a reaction against Muslim militancy and the number of immigrants which, with the exception of the United Kingdom the European people were not used to.
In his early political career he talked and acted like a democrat forcing the military out of politics which they had been active in. He obtained the support of the democrats in Turkey and the Western Democratic governments. However as he amassed power he weakened or eliminated most of the4 democartic aspects of Turkish society. He eradicated the independence of the judiciary, gained control over the schools and the universities,, adopted many Islamic aspects of government eradicating the secular government which was the cornerstone of the Attaturk bloodless revolution, prohibited demonstrations against the government and jailed over 150 journalists and forcing many others to flee thereby controlling the press and other information sources. Ironically, despite his one-man autocratic rule, about half the population, many of whom had supported him when he pretended to be a democrat, opposed him causing him to become even more autocratic.
Stephen Edward Schmidt is an American communications and public affairs strategist who has worked on Republican political campaigns, including those of President George W. Bush, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Arizona Senator John McCain.
