Ultrafeudoliberal with Chinese characteristics.<p>The article is way more optimistic, although it does contemplate the possibility of something like that:<p><i>“The ideology that was dominant these last 40 years is dying. What will replace it? Nobody knows for sure. It’s not hard to imagine this crisis might send us down an even darker path. That rulers will use it to seize more power, restrict their populations’ freedom, and stoke the flames of racism and hatred.”</i><p>It also notes how things didn’t actually change after the 2008 crisis, and I expect that movie to play again, but hope it will be different this time.<p>The political change that the article describes sounds to me like a reversal of the process described by Adam Curtis, where politicians gave up in their purpose to improve the world and, instead, subordinated themselves to “The Market”, becoming mere fear managers. I don’t see the forces that caused that transition disappearing because of this pandemic.