I often see discussions on China taking the starting point of how to get the gang together back again without asking underlying questions. I'd say a more productive approach is to ask what made democratic countries fall off the wagon in the first place.<p>It's similar to the approach most European political parties have with their local far-right colleagues. They rush to make a common front but never spend time considering how their own failures provided the biggest boost.<p>If each member of the alliance has systemic issues they aren't dealing with, forming an alliance is no longer sufficient to counter a threat.