{"id":11208,"date":"2026-06-17T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T07:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11208"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:43:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T07:43:00","slug":"nikos-karanikas-on-alexis-tsipras-he-lives-in-his-own-little-world-like-a-feudal-lord-he-thinks-everyone-is-a-pushover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11208","title":{"rendered":"Nikos Karanikas on Alexis Tsipras: He lives in his own little world like a feudal lord; he thinks everyone is a pushover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sharp criticism of the \u201c<b>feudal lord<\/b>\u201d Alexis Tsipras, as well as his inner circle of \u201c<b>salon leftists<\/b>,\u201d is leveled by <b>Nikos Karanikas.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<b>He lives in his own little world. He acts like a feudal lord, and his inner circle like an elite<\/b>,\u201d notes the former strategic planning advisor to the <b>SYRIZA government in a post,\u00a0<\/b>accusing Alexis Tsipras of treating the public like fools and <b>\u201chas made thousands of leftists ashamed to say they are on the left.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This was prompted by comments made by actor <b>Emilios Cheilakis<\/b> on a podcast, namely that Alexis Tsipras \u201c<b>is like Joconda\u2014no matter which way you look at him, you think he\u2019s looking at you<\/b>,\u201d Nikos Karanikas speaks of <b>\u201cridicule\u201d and \u201cthe humiliation of the left <\/b>with a former prime minister and former president of a left-wing party spouting whatever nonsense they feed him and concoct among themselves in the salon of nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not enough that they treat him like a feudal lord in a political party, with his followers bowing down to him; now they also see him as the Mona Lisa, gazing straight into the world\u2019s eyes, thinking he has conquered it and will rule tomorrow. <b>Have mercy<\/b>,\u201d comments Nikos Karanikas.<\/p>\n<p>He also accuses Alexis Tsipras of \u201che\u2019s out of touch with reality,\u201d while regarding his institute, he adds that \u201cthey\u2019re a bunch of socially illiterate people who\u2019ve ruined him with their vague, ridiculous nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the former prime minister\u2019s proposal for free public transportation <b><\/b>, he writes that \u201che hasn\u2019t understood it.\u201d <b>That makes sense, since none of them use public transit\u2014they\u2019re too comfortable to be crammed in like sardines. He lives in his own little world. He acts like a feudal lord, and his circle acts like the elite<\/b>.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The post<\/h3>\n<p>Nikos Karanikas notes in his post:<\/p>\n<p>Has this gotten out of hand?<\/p>\n<p>From decay and decline, the <b>armchair \u201cleftists\u201d <\/b>of Tsipras\u2019s IX have descended into ridicule. <\/p>\n<p>They have no grasp of reality and spout so much nonsense that we\u2019ll get used to this disgrace of the left, with a former prime minister and former president of a left-wing party spoutingspout whatever nonsense they feed him and concoct among themselves in their den of gibberish. <\/p>\n<p><b>No self-respect whatsoever.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not enough that they treat him like a feudal lord in a third-rate party, with his followers bowing down to him; now they also see him as <b>Mona Lisa<\/b> who looks the world straight in the eye and thinks she has conquered it and will rule tomorrow. Have mercy. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I\u2019m sure he hasn\u2019t noticed the criticism directed at him regarding the five pre-election proposals, the declaration, and the manifesto written for him by his \u201cluminaries.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He hasn\u2019t heard the term \u201cvague rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Out of touch with reality.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t pick up on it because he didn\u2019t understand what it means to be out of touch with reality, and his think tank consists of socially illiterate people who have ruined him with their vague nonsense. They convinced him that politics is a science. Is he into scientific socialism, too? <\/p>\n<p><b>I\u2019m sure he hasn\u2019t grasped the proposal for free public transit, which identifies the fare as the main problem. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>That makes sense, since none of them actually use public transportation\u2014they\u2019re too comfortable to be packed in like sardines. <\/p>\n<p>He lives in his own little world. He acts like a feudal lord, and his entourage acts like the elite.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s the delusion that arose because he saw a crowd at his speech and thinks that overnight he\u2019s become the official opposition and the day after tomorrow he\u2019ll be prime minister\u2014and that is indeed. <\/p>\n<p>Someone should help him out. <\/p>\n<p><b>It\u2019s concerning because he\u2019s forgetting that back in 2023, his campaign rallies were also a madhouse, but in the end he got 17% and lost by 20 points to Mitsotakis, even though he expected that if he didn\u2019t win, he\u2019d at least lose by 3%.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Flattery transcends memory and logic. It\u2019s like empathy, but in reverse.<\/p>\n<p><b>He basically considers the world gullible and has become flattered by his own self-flattery of those around him. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>He doesn\u2019t realize that through his actions and words, he has made thousands of left-wing people ashamed to say they\u2019re on the left. <\/p>\n<p><b>What makes him think people take him seriously and consider him trustworthy? <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>But he\u2019s being fawned over by sycophants, the careerists, the desperate left-wing followers who lost their status as equal members of the left-wing party and became mere cheerleaders.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>No one says anything sensible to him. <\/p>\n<p><b>Just flattery. Tsipras is in a bind.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is his entourage, and it\u2019s well known.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201c11\u201d of subservience and incompetence is writing its own history, and we\u2019ll remember it goofing off while staring straight at the Mona Lisa and munching on Joconda chocolates.<\/p>\n<p>The moral high ground is gone, as it is a burden on self-interest, and Tsipras and his officials have squandered it by behaving like feudal lords, staging coups and turning the party into a private fiefdom.<\/p>\n<p><b>P.S.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The decline of certain artists around him is no different from the decline of his MPs and officials who cling to power. <\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t start making excuses.<\/p>\n<p><b>Decadence knows no bounds, and, as it turns out, even academics can be ridiculous\u2014just like him and his office. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Proof of this lies in what he announces and the way he is treated.<\/p>\n<p>The second photo is from 2023. <\/p>\n<p>Back then, too, there were crowds, and we thought Mitsotakis would lose and Tsipras would win.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikos Karanikas levels sharp criticism at \u201cfeudal lord\u201d Alexis Tsipras, as well as at his inner circle of \u201carmchair leftists.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cHe lives in his own little world&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}