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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.
Criticism of the United States government encompasses a wide range of sentiments about the actions and policies of the United States. Historically, domestic and international criticism of the United States has been driven by its embracement of classical economics, manifest destiny, hemispheric exclusion and exploitation of the Global South, military intervention, and alleged practice of ...
In the online Oxford Dictionaries, the term "anti-Americanism" is defined as "Hostility to the interests of the United States". [21]In the first edition of Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828) the term "anti-American" was defined as "opposed to America, or to the true interests or government of the United States; opposed to the revolution in America".
A long view over the arc of history shows that most democracies fail, says a former State Department advisor.
More than three-quarters of Americans say democracy is currently under threat, according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll. Seventy-six percent of likely voters say democracy is ...
Trump derangement syndrome (TDS) is a pejorative term used to describe criticisms of Donald Trump that are perceived to be irrational or to have little regard for Trump's actual policy positions and actions. [1] The term is meant to suggest that Trump's opponents are irrational or incapable of accurately perceiving the world.
At the same time, the past three years proved that American democracy was resilient. Former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election results failed, blocked by the ...
In their 2022 book, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy, Gorski and co-author Samuel Perry, a professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma, wrote that white Christian nationalists share a set of common anti-democratic beliefs and principles that "add up to a political vision that ...