"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.
...the US ... has lost its long-term status as a liberal democracy."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/trump-is-aiming-for-dictatorship-thats-the-verdict-of-the-worlds-most-credible-democracy-watchdog
"“For Orbán in #Hungary, it took about four years, for Vučić in #Serbia, it took eight years, and for Erdoğan 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,” Lindberg says.
US #democracy is now back at the worst recorded level since 1965, when US #CivilRights laws first introduced de facto universal suffrage. All progress made since then has been erased"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/trump-is-aiming-for-dictatorship-thats-the-verdict-of-the-worlds-most-credible-democracy-watchdog
