The article states it was starting from 2019 but I would suggest 2016.
Was US really a democracy?
Bout time
You don’t even have real freedom of speech in Europe.
Check your fucking self first.
Macron is not wrong when he speaks for a stronger and united UE to stand against these backwardness winds from far West and far East.
edit: but we aren’t doing any better, eh.
Fyi, this isn’t exclusive to the USA alone. In fact US allies in the last 10 years have been the largest drivers of democratic decline. They have backslid twice as much on average as non US allies.
>“It would be too easy to say this can all be explained by Trump,” cautioned Seva Gunitsky, a University of Toronto political scientist who studies how great powers influence democracies. Data indicates that the trend accelerated during his presidency but predated it…
>The data contradicts assumptions in Washington that this trend is driven by Russia and China, whose neighbors and partners have seen their scores change very little, or by Mr. Trump, who entered office when the shift was well underway.
So you know what, maybe America and its allies do actually export democracy to the rest of the world. Turns out though that they shut down all the democracy factories and are currently running a democracy exchange deficit.
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Ouch!
The article states it was starting from 2019 but I would suggest 2016.
Was US really a democracy?
Bout time
You don’t even have real freedom of speech in Europe.
Check your fucking self first.
Macron is not wrong when he speaks for a stronger and united UE to stand against these backwardness winds from far West and far East.
edit: but we aren’t doing any better, eh.
Fyi, this isn’t exclusive to the USA alone. In fact US allies in the last 10 years have been the largest drivers of democratic decline. They have backslid twice as much on average as non US allies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/world/americas/democracy-decline-worldwide.html
And it’s not just Trump.
>“It would be too easy to say this can all be explained by Trump,” cautioned Seva Gunitsky, a University of Toronto political scientist who studies how great powers influence democracies. Data indicates that the trend accelerated during his presidency but predated it…
>The data contradicts assumptions in Washington that this trend is driven by Russia and China, whose neighbors and partners have seen their scores change very little, or by Mr. Trump, who entered office when the shift was well underway.
So you know what, maybe America and its allies do actually export democracy to the rest of the world. Turns out though that they shut down all the democracy factories and are currently running a democracy exchange deficit.
And well justified!