Wrong impression

The New York Times published an opinion piece on Monday titled "The Adults are Back in Charge in Greece. And they are Really Right Wing." Its author, Matthaios Tsimitakis, we are told, is "a Greek journalist." The piece refers to New Democracy as a "right-wing party with pronounced authoritarian tendencies" and accuses Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of pursuing "divisive and polarizing policies."
"The return of order is proving to be the return of the hard right," writes Tsimitakis.
One can quibble about the details in the article - the supposed "hypocrisy" of Mitsotakis on North Macedonia, though he clearly stated before the election that he would accept the deal once ratified, despite his disagreements with it; the laughable concern about the independence of the state broadcaster, whose obedience to government diktat reached unprecedented levels under the previous...