He wants a different political system (democratic) and his arguments are that the current one did many bad things. My point is that changing the political system doesn't change the bad things he's talking about. As we can clearly see in many democratic systems in the world.
I don't think I'll write a blogpost. Given the initial responses of my current comments I am sure it would get downvoted anyway.
I think freedom of speech and press helps to bring abuses to daylight and rule of law is essential in reining them in.
I believe both are more robust (but, not nearly perfect) in western democracies, and are included in this desire for reform.
I agree that they can be important, but they don't always solve many problems. Sometimes they even create problems: for example all the "fake news" and entities abusing social media platforms to manipulate elections.