Modi's part of an international populist backlash against liberal democracy. Modi's arrogance in dealing with the pandemic seems to have landed India in its present predicament.

You don't think cancel culture has gone off the rails? Should someone's career be ended just for telling a politically incorrect joke, because other people are overly sensitive? Al Franken lost his job as senator on that trivial basis. It's a question of coddling and infantilizing young people in the technosphere who grow up to be sanctimonious, sheltered busybodies.