That is only if you are using a Western European binary. There is no reason to do that unless you are oddly racist (unlikely), poorly educated in political philosophy, or incredibly eurocentric.
Many nations are authoritarian and the liberal/authoritarian binary really us the big binary as it covers all ideologies not the socialist/capitalist one that Europe uses that rules out almost every form of government that is not a democracy.
Regardless Jacobin is trash. They are so low quality that they had an author cite their own opinion article as a source for an article they wrote. That’s the equivalent of saying “because I said so”
That is only if you are using a Western European binary. There is no reason to do that unless you are oddly racist (unlikely), poorly educated in political philosophy, or incredibly eurocentric.
Many nations are authoritarian and the liberal/authoritarian binary really us the big binary as it covers all ideologies not the socialist/capitalist one that Europe uses that rules out almost every form of government that is not a democracy.
Regardless Jacobin is trash. They are so low quality that they had an author cite their own opinion article as a source for an article they wrote. That’s the equivalent of saying “because I said so”