Authoritarian, divisive, hard right?

A few days ago, the New York Times published an opinion piece on political developments in Greece on its front page in which the author denounced the return to power of the "hard" right under the leadership of an "authoritarian" prime minister with "anti-democratic instincts."

I will not focus on the failure of the authoritative paper - which has been the main source of information for this columnist for the better part of his life and a point of reference in discussions about serious, objective journalism - to mention the writer's particular relationship with the country's former prime minister Alexis Tsipras. A lot has been written on the subject, while the paper has added an editor's note to the online text.

I will focus on the essence of the opinion piece. New Democracy, which received 40 percent of the vote in the July general election, is not an "authoritarian"...