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A 2022 Quinnipiac University poll found that 69 percent of Democrats and Republicans and 66 percent of Independents think American democracy is "in danger of collapse". [123] Heading toward the 2024 elections, polls indicated that Democrats and Republicans alike had serious concerns about democratic backsliding, though for starkly different ...
Democratic backsliding [a] or autocratization is a process of regime change toward autocracy in which the exercise of political power becomes more arbitrary and repressive. [7] [8] [9] The process typically restricts the space for public contest and political participation in the process of government selection.
There has never been a more critical time for a minority party to get creative, stand up and fight. So far, the Democrats’ public response has consisted of televised pressers, as when Sen. Patty ...
The commitment by Trump to bring prices down was what Americans cared about most in 2024. Republican politicians knew they could never honor it, short of triggering a recession.
How Democracies Die is a 2018 comparative politics book by the Harvard University political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt about democratic backsliding and how elected leaders can gradually subvert the democratic process to increase their power.
Asked what the American people want from Democrats, a shellshocked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) could only sputter, “They want us to beat Trump and stop this s—.” Some ...
As the tip of the spear for Democrats nationally, California pushes the party to the left. President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election suggests the party — and ...
Democrats must be willing to seriously engage the president-elect’s fickleness. If they don’t, the left will find itself left behind by events as Republicans spend the next two to four years ...