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Rachel Kleinfeld, a scholar of global political violence and democracy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, found in July 2022 that Trump's affinity for far-right militia groups dated to his 2016 campaign and such groups had since become increasingly mainstreamed in the Republican Party. She argued the militia influence had spread ...
Lewis became a U.S. congressman for Georgia's 5th congressional district in 1987. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] While working on his 2008 reelection campaign , Lewis told his telecommunications and technology policy aide, Andrew Aydin, about The Montgomery Story and its influence.
Democratic backsliding [a] 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.
This makes the Senate ever more egregiously undemocratic. In the last session of Congress, the 50 Democratic senators represented 42 million more people than the 50 Republican senators did.
Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." [2] Critics of democracy have often tried to highlight democracy's inconsistencies, paradoxes, and limits by contrasting it with other forms of government, such as epistocracy or lottocracy.
Jay Leno offered some positive thoughts on the role democracy played in the 2024 U.S. presidential election shortly after news organizations called the race for former President Donald Trump.
Jay Leno may not be Donald Trump’s biggest fan, but he’s praising the election as “a great day for democracy.” During an appearance Wednesday morning on “The Talk,” the comedian ...
In the book, Kennedy is fiercely critical of George W. Bush, accusing him of undermining democracy and damaging the environment. The book's criticism includes the lobbying efforts of American oil company Halliburton, and Bush's appointment of Gale Norton to the role of Interior Secretary.