His point was correct: The most advanced people in the world live under ever-more-liberal democracies. There are vicious dictators in the world, and putin is one, along with Kim, Aliyev, Lukashenko etc, but they are not offering a better alternative to liberal democracy. Where he gets it wrong is that liberal democracy is final, while in reality it is one more extra step in this process towards individual rights set forward by enlightenment.

He pretty much says the opposite of what everyone claims he said in that book. People who've never read the book read the title and assume they know what his argument is.

oh, that's interesting. I read the book. although I was young and I did not finish it because it was dreadfully propagandist. i remember I got the feeling the book was written by a committee under the pseudonymous fukuyama. so maybe the conclusion of the book is reasonable and that's what you are referring to. i'm going to reread it. thank you

Sounds like this pop view of Fukuyama is inaccurate https://www.thepullrequest.com/p/history-restarts?s=r

Most people have a meme-level understanding of him and no idea what he has really said. This is relevant today as the pile-on of negative comments on his credibility are based on this meme-level understanding.

Yea, that was my first thought too.

Now I'm expecting him to write: "The End of the End of the End of History".

"The End of the End of History"[0] is a thing, so it's only a matter of time now for his response /s

[0]: https://bungacast.com/book/

Yea, I this is what I was referencing - thanks!