[The Critic] The Plot Against Georgia

When an unimpeachable race delivered the wrong verdict, liberal maximalists began recklessly astroturfing a color revolution.

We election monitors pierced a flock of rainclouds Friday in our descent to Tbilisi past Mount Elbrus, Europe’s tallest peak, as though a foreboding specter hung over Georgia’s capital. The South Caucasian statelet was once lauded for leading the post-Soviet space in democratic resilience, yet today it looks centrally cast in the maelstroms escalated by the Ukraine war. At stake is whether Georgia clings onto the narrowing intra-West space for a democratic politics that is also interest-based and skeptical of liberal hubris. The alternative is the exclusionary ratchet claiming another millenary Western nation.

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