Republic of Georgia Shows Trump & His Fans Depressingly Normal

....[their] own quest for independence challenged the identities of the Abkhazians and Ossetians” (Devdariani 2005, 161)… Jones (2006), seeking to downplay ethnic tensions in favor of economic ones, disagrees that the protests were about Abkhazia and argues they were more about “Georgian independence,” but Jones still describes Gamsakhurdia as “using nationalist slogans to gain authority” and “manipulat a formerly moderate Georgian populace into a chauvinistic mob;” Zürcher maintains with others that the Abkhazian call for secession “led” ...