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How steep is Trump’s democratic backsliding?

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The resulting dataset of 139 instances where erstwhile democracies were gradually eroded also allows us to consider a crucial question: is the US under Trump’s second term hurtling inevitably towards the same destination as these other cases?...In Trump’s second term, by contrast, most of the action has taken the form of shocking acts or events that bypass rather than permanently corrupt institutions.

John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Gimes on backsliding from democracy and institutional resilience.

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