Three major reports out this month say Trump has done serious damage to American democracy at remarkable speed since his return to the White House.

An annual report from V-Dem, an institute at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg, concluded democracy had deteriorated so much in the U.S. that it lowered the country’s democracy ranking from 20th to 51st out of 179 countries.

The U.S. landed between Slovakia and Greece.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    Carey says autocrats try to co-opt or pressure government institutions that serve as referees but notes that didn’t work last month as the Supreme Court ruled against the president on tariffs.

    “One of the things that the tariff decision suggested [is] he has not fully captured that set of referees,” said Carey, a professor of political science at Dartmouth, “and that’s the most important set.”

    This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what’s actually happening.

    They ruled against Trump’s tariffs because this is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and he isn’t allowed to touch the money. Trump is a figurehead that’s being granted power by the ruling class, he’s only allowed to do what he’s doing because it’s useful.

    The US was never a democracy. They just let us pretend because it was similarly useful.