Not left or right, but authoritarianism vs. liberal democracy: Will McCorkle

Not left or right, but authoritarianism vs. liberal democracy: Will McCorkle

This past month, I went to a panel at the University of Costa Rica with a group of refugees from Nicaragua. This group of fairly progressive individuals had fled Nicaragua due to political persecution. One was a transgender woman and all were proud feminists. In U.S. terms, they would have been considered to be on the left, but they were all escaping the “leftist” government of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua. I think this experience underlines somet…