Global Watchdog Claims US Could Lose "Democracy Status" Because Of Trump
Let's clarify one important issue up front: Progressives do not believe in democracy. They use the term frequently as a Pavlovian bell to whip useful idiot activists into a frothing frenzy, but there is no measure by which they have proven they care about Democracy or even know what it is. And since this is the case, we have to ask - What do they really mean when they use the word?
If we consider the traditional definition of "majority rule", then this is clearly not what leftists support. That is to say, they only support majority rule when they represent the majority. In the case of the 2024 election Donald Trump won both the Electoral College and the popular vote, which means he does in fact represent the majority. Yet, Democrats and their ilk continue to accuse him of being a "threat to democracy", and they have openly and actively refused to accept the will of the people.
Therefore, one can only conclude that leftists want something other than democracy. And, given their track record over the last four years in which they attempted mass online censorship and a global authoritarian coup using pandemic hysteria as a weapon, there is little doubt who the true autocrats really are.
The hypocrisy is overwhelming when these same people accuse conservatives of authoritarianism.
Such is the case in light of a newly released annual report on the global state of democracy published by a "global watchdog" called the Varieties of Democracy project, or V-Dem. Headed by Staffan Lindberg of Sweden's University of Gothenburg, the group boasts that it is one of the largest social science data collection projects on democracy in the world. V-Dem's report covers the state of democracy around the world up until the end of 2024. However, Lindberg provided special notes on Donald Trump, claiming that the President could lead America to lose its democracy status by 2026.
"If it continues like this, the United States will not score as a democracy when we release [next year's] data...If it continues like this, democracy [there] will not last another six months."
Lindberg says Trump is doing many of the same things as Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey, Viktor Orbán in Hungary and Narendra Modi in India — only faster.
"It's the pace...He's trying to do in a few months what it took them eight to 10 years to achieve.… It's very dire."
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