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.

  • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    I’m not holding my breath. If we get anything besides a Russian style dictatorship, it’ll be some useless Neoliberal who pardons everyone in the name of “peace” then leaves all but the worst Trump era policies in place

    Unless the people actually do something, which is even less likely