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‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog (www.theguardian.com)

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This article is more than 1 month old but in the light of what's been discussed in the last couple of days, this is relevant.

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.

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[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 28 points 3 months ago

What is so annoying is how easy its been. I keep thinking of all the presidents trying to do damage control and apparently the ideal response to everything is no. fuck you. your a

[-] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

Imo what's really disgusting is how easy it was to get support for that. Either a while bunch of Republicans are completely spineless and fully ok with dictatorship, or there's been a massive blackmail effort to get them to go along with it... Idk!!

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

The real Epstein files, perhaps.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Obama said he’s worried.

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