The US is no longer a democracy. One of the most credible global sources on the health of democratic nations now says this outright. The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at Gothenburg University reaches the alarming conclusion in its annual report, that the US is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster rate than Hungary and Turkey.
“Our data on the USA goes back to 1789. What we’re seeing now is the most severe magnitude of democratic backsliding ever in the country,” says Staffan Lindberg, founder of the institute.
Since 2012, Lindberg has led his small group of researchers in Sweden to become the world’s leading source for analysis of the health of global democracy. In their latest report, published on Tuesday, they conclude that the US, for the first time in more than half a century, has lost its long-term status as a liberal democracy. The country is now going through a rapid process of what the report’s authors call “autocratisation”.
“For OrbĂĄn in Hungary, it took about four years, for VuÄiÄ in Serbia, it took eight years, and for ErdoÄan in Turkey and Modi in India . . .
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It will come as no surprise if Trump suspends Presidential Elections when he is due for reelection or kicked out. Like Hitler in Germany in the 1930s democratic elections were suspended indefinitely with the coerced backing of the Reichstag, so too could happen in the USA.. Trump has already tried Hitlerite methods, similar to the bier putch in Munich 1923 Trump tried to close down Capitol Hill by thuggery and force in 2020. Trump is also trying to select who is in charge, as his puppets, in numerous countries starting with Venezuela with Cuba in his sights. This after he has finished with Iran, who next London, Dublin? Who knows because like Hitler the world does nothing to stop Trump.
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