Trump Is Dismantling Democracy at 'Unprecedented' Speed, Global Report Finds

Trump is dismantling democracy at 'unprecedented' speed, global report finds

Three major reports out this month say President 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.Meanwhile, Bright Line W…

We Finally Have Data to Show How Fast Trump Has Eroded American Democracy and Free Speech

Anyone who has been paying the slightest bit of attention to the daily ebb and flow of news during the first year of the second Donald Trump administration should reallllly have picked up on the way that American democracy and free speech have been consistently eroding during this period. There’s not really any excuse for missing it at this point; the loss of basic freedoms has been unfolding at a breakneck pace, unprecedented in modern American…

A Trump Insider’s Resignation Helps Explain Why Our Democracy Is Eroding Faster Than Predicted

Republished with permission from Thom Hartmann Trump is dismantling our American democracy with alarming speed and the resignation of the Trump-appointed Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, is a symptom of it. Kent, a hardcore MAGA Republican who ran two failed, Trump-endorsed campaigns for Congress before Trump put him in charge of counterterrorism, was adjacent to the very highest levels of our national security apparat…

Speed of Trump's destruction of US democracy 'comparable to some coups': scathing report

In a new report, the Varieties of Democracy Institute said that democracy in the United States has slipped to its lowest levels since 1965, with the renowned research center attributing its findings largely to President Donald Trump.“President Trump’s second term can be summarized as a rapid and agg...

Trump is dismantling democracy at 'unprecedented' speed, global report finds - TPR: The Public's Radio

Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat. The post Trump is dismantling democracy at ‘unprecedented’ speed, global report finds appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio.