CNN’s Fareed Zakaria took his book tour to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday, where he claimed that if there is one thing that unites the “right-wing reactionary movements” of Christian Nationalism (whatever that means), Islamic fundamentalism, and ultra-Orthodox Israelis, it is that belief that “women have gotten to uppity.” For good measure, Zakaria also threw in Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.
Colbert asked, “The subtitle for this book is Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present. What would you say the main modern backlash we are experiencing right now is?”
Zakaria began by going through the typical talk about globalization and social media before proclaiming that “I would say the principal one has been this one of we’ve really moved, think about it, you know, we’ve always…
