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===Threats to democracy=== In 2017, le Carré expressed concerns over the future of [[liberal democracy]], saying: "I think of all things that were happening across Europe in the 1930s, in Spain, in Japan, obviously in Germany. To me, these are absolutely comparable signs of the rise of [[fascism]] and it's contagious, it's infectious. Fascism is up and running in Poland and Hungary. There's an encouragement about".<ref>{{Cite news|last=Brown|first=Mark|date=7 September 2017|title=John le Carré on Trump: 'Something seriously bad is happening'|work=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/07/john-le-carre-on-trump-something-truly-seriously-bad-is-happening|access-date=8 September 2017|archive-date=7 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170907235916/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/07/john-le-carre-on-trump-something-truly-seriously-bad-is-happening|url-status=live}}</ref> He later wrote that the end of the Cold War had left the West without a coherent ideology, in contrast to the "notion of [[individual freedom]], of inclusiveness, of tolerance – all of that we called [[anti-communism]]" prevailing during that time.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Novelist John Le Carré Reflects On His Own 'Legacy' Of Spying|publisher=NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/12/28/572625559/novelist-john-le-carr-reflects-on-his-own-legacy-of-spying|access-date=14 December 2020|language=en|archive-date=18 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918142937/https://www.npr.org/2017/12/28/572625559/novelist-john-le-carr-reflects-on-his-own-legacy-of-spying|url-status=live}}</ref> Le Carré opposed both U.S. President [[Donald Trump]] and Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]], arguing that their desire to seek or maintain their countries' superpower status caused an impulse "for [[oligarchy]], the dismissal of the truth, the contempt, actually, for the electorate and for the [[democratic system]]".<ref>{{Cite news|last=Scott|first=Simon|title=John Le Carré Fears For The Future In 'Agent Running In The Field'|date=19 October 2019|url=https://www.npr.org/2019/10/19/771089425/john-le-carr-fears-for-the-future-in-agent-running-in-the-field|access-date=13 December 2020|publisher=[[NPR]]|language=en|archive-date=1 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200701165533/https://www.npr.org/2019/10/19/771089425/john-le-carr-fears-for-the-future-in-agent-running-in-the-field|url-status=live}}</ref> Le Carré compared Trump's tendency to dismiss the media as "[[fake news]]" to the [[Nazi book burnings]], and wrote that the United States is "heading straight down the road to [[institutional racism]] and [[neo-fascism]]".<ref>{{Cite web|date=7 September 2017|title=John le Carré on Trump: 'Something seriously bad is happening'|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/07/john-le-carre-on-trump-something-truly-seriously-bad-is-happening|access-date=13 December 2020|website=The Guardian|language=en|archive-date=6 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201206171537/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/07/john-le-carre-on-trump-something-truly-seriously-bad-is-happening|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":02">{{Cite news|last1=Banville|first1=John|author-link1=John Banville|last2=le Carré|first2=John|date=11 October 2019|title='My ties to England have loosened': John le Carré on Britain, Boris and Brexit|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/11/john-le-carre-truth-was-what-you-got-away-with|access-date=13 December 2020|work=[[The Guardian]]|language=en|archive-date=13 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201213233913/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/11/john-le-carre-truth-was-what-you-got-away-with|url-status=live}}</ref> In le Carré's 2019 novel ''[[Agent Running in the Field]]'', one of the novel's characters refers to Trump as "Putin's shithouse cleaner" who "does everything for little Vladi that little Vladi can't do for himself". The novel's narrator describes [[Boris Johnson]] as "a pig-ignorant foreign secretary". He says Russia is moving "backwards into her dark, delusional past", with Britain following a short way behind.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Gilbert|first=Sophie|date=26 October 2019|title=John le Carré's Scathing Tale of Brexit Britain|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/10/john-le-carre-agent-running-in-the-field-review/600631/|access-date=14 December 2020|website=[[The Atlantic]]|language=en-US}}</ref> Le Carré later said that he believed the novel's plotline, involving the U.S. and British intelligence services [[colluding]] to subvert the [[European Union]], to be "horribly possible".<ref name=":02" />
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