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American democracy on the brink a year after Trump’s election, experts say (www.theguardian.com)

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Three hundred and sixty-five days after Donald Trump placed his hand on the Bible and completed an extraordinary return to power, many historians, scholars and experts say his presidency has pushed American democracy to the brink – or beyond it.

In the first year of Trump’s second term, the democratically elected US president has moved with startling speed to consolidate authority: dismantling federal agencies, purging the civil service, firing independent watchdogs, sidelining Congress, challenging judicial rulings, deploying federal force in blue cities, stifling dissent, persecuting political enemies, targeting immigrants, scapegoating marginalized groups, ordering the capture of a foreign leader, leveraging the presidency for profit, trampling academic freedom and escalating attacks on the news media.

The scale and velocity of what he has been able to accomplish in just a year have stunned even longtime observers of authoritarian regimes, pushing the debate among academics and Americans from whether the world’s oldest continuous democracy is backsliding to whether it can still faithfully claim that distinction.

“In 2025, the United States ceased to be a full democracy in the way that Canada, Germany or even Argentina are democracies,” Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, the prominent Harvard political scientists and authors of How Democracies Die, and the University of Toronto professor Lucan Way, wrote in Foreign Affairs last month. They argued that the US under Trump had “descended into competitive authoritarianism”, a system in which elections are held but the ruling party abuses power to stifle dissent and tilt the playing field in its favor.

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[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

One of the greatest sources for the end of US democracy is the complete and total lack of journalistic integrity by all of the most major news outlets.

If they aren't 100% compliant to Trump, they are 99% compliant because they rather pretend anything that asshole does might not be that bad so they don't alienate his dipshit base from their audience. They're also too chicken-shit to go against their sponsors, most of who donated massive bribes to Trump to do their bidding.

And don't get me started on Israel's control over US media, and alliance with the GOP and establishment Dems.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seems like Snowden and Assange exposed the lack of journalistic integrity a long time ago, and Pulitzer and Hearst before then.

[–] tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

see also: Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 1 month ago

I've been recommended Parenti's Inventing Reality, but haven't had a chance to get it yet. I really want it hardcopy because it's just easier for me.

Eta: here's an audio copy *of Parenti discussing themes in the book, I believe, if anyone is interested https://archive.org/details/michael-parenti-inventing-reality-recorded-1993