LarryDiamond

Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, & Mosbacher Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University. Views expressed are purely my own.

[Damon M. Wilson @DamonMacWilson]

Terrific news for @FreedomHouse! I’ve known Laura Rosenberger as a whip-smart, principled leader with a deep commitment to democracy and freedom.

Congratulations, Laura! Looking forward to working together in common cause to advance freedom and support those fighting for it around the world.

[LarryDiamond @LarryDiamond]

The Democrats won a landslide victory on Nov. 3. It was a massive defeat for Trump's corruption and abuse of power. It brought generational change and a host of new and diverse talent into office. Here is what the party needs to do to make this victory the beginning of an electoral realignment: https://t.co/a8fCSg9GXx

[LarryDiamond @LarryDiamond]

This is a great substack piece by Protect Democracy ED Ian Bassin on how they and other pro-democracy forces helped to secure our elections and beat back Donald Trump's authoritarian ambitions during these last two years. The battle is far from won, but thanks to the superb strategy and broad organization of American civil society, we have made huge progress. https://t.co/IcJwkoqbbm

[LarryDiamond @LarryDiamond]

“Women will lead more states as governors and represent more congressional districts than at any time in American history come January.” So many amazing democratic stories coming out of this election. https://t.co/OvJDIClxy4

[LarryDiamond @LarryDiamond]

Talarico gave tonight one of the greatest speeches in recent American political history, and a model and inspiration for the revival of the Democratic Party.

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

Texas Democrat Talarico says 'we defeated Goliath' in US Senate upset

James Talarico, a former schoolteacher and Presbyterian seminarian who campaigned on a "politics of love," won the US Senate race in Texas, US media projected, dealing a historic blow to Republicans that could reshape American politics

[LarryDiamond @LarryDiamond]

A historic setback for Trump’s authoritarian project, his unprecedented corruption, and his cavalier incompetence. Democratic Party House gains not seen in decades, and a clear majority in the Senate as well. Now nearly 20 women governors, including the first Latina governor of Texas and the First Black woman governor in the US. Five Black governors. A flood of young talent coming into politics, including James Talarico’s politics of love. A remarkable night for Democracy in America.

[LarryDiamond @LarryDiamond]

Against all odds, the opposition has won the Serbian parliamentary elections and will be in a position to restore democracy over there a little bit I mean at some point I’ll need to to that severely abused country. And the Democratic opposition leader Maria Karina Machado has just returned to Venezuela. This is a great day for democracy. We await the presidential election result in Brazil. - https://t.co/IObA4YIay4

[LarryDiamond @LarryDiamond]

There is a Blue Wave coming in the November 3 elections. Here are some practical ways the Democrats can use their new Congressional power, and eventually the White House, to begin to repair our democracy.

https://t.co/kxlvzhBnOa

[LarryDiamond @LarryDiamond]

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[LarryDiamond @LarryDiamond]

Venezuela has the right and the need to return to democracy. Having forcibly removed its authoritarian ruler, we have an obligation to help the country achieve this outcome. Here are my thoughts on how this can happen. LARRY DIAMOND: ¿Cómo construir una democracia que pueda sobrevivir? https://t.co/K5SFFtiXot via @YouTube

[LarryDiamond @LarryDiamond]

This is one of the most important social media threads of our time. Deep thanks to Coxon for sounding the alarm bell. We need to press for joint US-China management of this existential threat before it is too late.

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[LarryDiamond @LarryDiamond]

The US has a vital interest in ensuring that Taiwan’s democracy remains secur and able to determine its own future. Here is why. Trump-Xi: Why Taiwan Can't Be on the Menu – A Conversation With Larry Di... https://t.co/5plAHASzno via @YouTube

[LarryDiamond @LarryDiamond]

Taiwan has the will and is rapidly increasing and modernizing its defense investments to enhance its means to deter and rebuff the PRC military threat. Cynical dismissals of Taiwan’s security as a lost cause are not only morally reprehensible but analytically lazy and deeply contrary to the US national interest.

[Joseph Wu @josephwutw]

It’s a mistake to assume that #Taiwan doesn’t have the will to defend itself. With more investment, better equipment, tougher training & realistic exercises, the will has never been stronger.

[LarryDiamond @LarryDiamond]

Father of the Constitution: Larry Diamond on James Madison. How he speaks to us today on the need to constrain the abuse of power and transcend the polarization of factions. https://t.co/1nTdce8xX6

[LarryDiamond @LarryDiamond]

Great piece on the Administration’s bankrupt posture in Venezuela. The U.S. Is Losing Venezuela https://t.co/XvHjjxpRMY

[LarryDiamond @LarryDiamond]

The momentum of the war is turning in Ukraine’s favor. “Renewing U.S. support now could help bring about Ukrainian victory and Russian defeat that both deserve,” writes David Kramer in this excellent piece in The Dispatch. https://t.co/maVK81PqVm

[LarryDiamond @LarryDiamond]

Sadly, xenophobia and scapegoating are global phenomenon, and the virulent anti-immigrant form of it is now gripping South Africa. But the country is fortunate to have courageous intellectuals calling it back to its democratic principles. One of the best of these, Professor Jonathan Jansen, pushes back eloquently in this stunning op-ed: https://t.co/08NcWynNpH.

[LarryDiamond @LarryDiamond]

This is clearly a must read.

[Thomas L. Friedman @tomfriedman]

Just started reading Dr. Shoshan Haran’s gripping book ``Mission in Captivity.’’ https://t.co/OmiMkKC15x It will make a great play one day. It’s the story of how Hamas gunmen on October 7, 2023, killed her husband, sister, and brother-in-law in Kibbutz Be’eri. Then they kidnapped Haran into Gaza with her daughter, two grandchildren, sister in-law and niece. For 50 days, ten people -- six hostages and four captors -- lived together in a tiny, sealed room. Oh my, what they learned about each other.

[LarryDiamond @LarryDiamond]

Nick Stephanopoulos on the Court’s disastrous Calais decision: “I see Callais as a catastrophe from a democratic perspective. Minority representation is a fundamental democratic value, especially in a racially and ethnically diverse country with severely racially polarized voting…. we’re about to see the biggest drop in minority representation since at least the late nineteenth century, possibly ever.” https://t.co/pnYxWNuPvB

[LarryDiamond @LarryDiamond]

A moving account by my Hoover colleague Rowena He of her struggle to recover and defend historical memory in China. I am so grateful to the Hoover Institution for preserving the memory of Lin Zhao. Hope in Darkness: Teaching Lin Zhao in Hong Kong https://t.co/hgcr75LZDi