"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. 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 Orban in Hungary, it took about four years, for Vucic in Serbia, it took eight years, and for Erdogan in Turkey and Modi in India, it took about 10 years to accomplish the suppression of democratic institutions that Trump has achieved in only one year. US democracy is now back at the worst recorded level since 1965, when US civil rights laws first introduced de facto universal suffrage."
"Worldwide, democracy has receded to its lowest levels since the mid-70s. The world has never before seen as many countries autocratising at the same time. A record 41% (3.4 billion) of the world's population currently resides in countries where democracy is deteriorating, the report claims, adding that Washington is leading this global turn away from democracy."
The Varieties of Democracy Institute at Gothenburg University reports that the United States is no longer a liberal democracy and is undergoing rapid autocratization. The country has experienced the most severe democratic backsliding in its recorded history since 1789, reverting to conditions last seen in 1965. Trump accomplished in one year what took Orban four years, Vucic eight years, and Erdogan and Modi approximately ten years. Globally, democracy has declined to its lowest levels since the mid-1970s, with 41% of the world's population living in countries experiencing democratic deterioration. The institute uses 48 metrics including freedom of expression, media freedom, election quality, and rule of law to assess democratic health.
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