Trump is dismantling our democracy at an unprecedented level

[HikerGuy83]

Lol. Our elections are under assault because you MAGA consistently lie about voter fraud.

How are they under assault? Go ahead....tell us.

Our press is protected by the 1st amendment and is under assault by a president who does not like critical coverage which is the very heart of the 1st amendment.

Sure, buckwheat. And the examples you've been asked for don't seem to be making it to your posts.

You drinking...again?

There was a right of privacy until the court took it away. That was a loss for the nation.

Put down the talking points and try to think for once.

There was no right to privacy for 200 years.

Then William O. Douglas pulls it out of the penumbra of his ass.

Which we all said.....was wrong.

The court said, it belongs with the states and they are allowing abortions (without the smokescreen of "right to privacy") according to the wishes of the people as outlined in the Constitution.

Keep trying.

No examples.

Just left wing talking points.

 

[BS Filter]

Read your post. By calling those who disagree with you traitors, you have proven my point in spades. You MAGAs are anti-American and have betrayed the very principals so many soldiers have died for, I.e. the freedom to express your opinion. These are the freedoms you MAGAs want to kill.

Yes, move to Russia or North Korea, you will find likeminded people like yourself there.

No one is trying to stop you from expressing your idiotic crazy opinions. Carry on.

 

[HikerGuy83]

Some of us give a damn about our Constitutional Republic and and democratic institutions and other like you don’t.

Sounds so good for such a huge lie.

 

[HikerGuy83]

All of which has nothing to do with Trump’s assault on out freedoms.

What freedoms?

3rd request.

 

[HikerGuy83]

No one is trying to stop you from expressing your idiotic crazy opinions. Carry on.

It's all whine and cry.

 

[The Duke]

Lol. Our elections are under assault because you MAGA consistently lie about voter fraud.
Our press is protected by the 1st amendment and is under assault by a president who does not like critical coverage which is the very heart of the 1st amendment.
There was a right of privacy until the court took it away. That was a loss for the nation.

No, our elections are under assault because Democrats have been gaming it and cheating them. Gaming them with illegal immigration and gerrymandering to gain false representation by counting illegals as citizens and cheating by actually voting for them.
I mean party hacks using dead people and illegals' names to cast fake votes for them.

 

[HikerGuy83]

No one is trying to stop you from expressing your idiotic crazy opinions. Carry on.

It's the left.

They are incensed that anyone would not accept their word as gospel.

That's why we have Trump. Because of their arrogance.

I'll take him anyday over Clinton, Biden or Harris. All of whom will only push more GDP to DC. Get more rich even though they don't do business. And who would love to do things like surpress free speech by whining about a stupid mob on Jan 6th (like that group could overthrow the government.....are they really that stupid?).

 

[HikerGuy83]

No one is trying to stop you from expressing your idiotic crazy opinions. Carry on.

You'll notice JLW exited without backing up his claims.

Keep that in mind the next time you find him lurking a thread spreading his left-wing clap-trap.

 

[Papageorgio]

President Donald Trump is dismantling U.S. democracy at an “unprecedented” rate, downgrading the U.S.’s democratic rating on a global scale and plunging the country toward autocracy at a faster rate than autocratic leaders of other countries in the 21st century, the latest report by an international democracy watchdog finds.

Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at Sweden’s Gothenburg University finds in its annual report that Trump’s second term has been characterized by a swift concentration of power in the executive branch that ignores the rule of law, suppresses dissent, and targets civil rights.

Many countries are falling further into autocracy, the report finds. But the U.S. stands out as “an exceptional new autocratizer due to both far-reaching changes in 2025 and their implications for the rest of the world,” the group writes. “The extensive damage already done to American democracy under the second Trump presidency — in just one year — stands out on the world map.”


Trump has achieved in only one year what other countries with similar trends have taken a decade to achieve, the report says.

Trump Is Destroying US Democracy at Unprecedented Rate, Global Watchdog Finds

“[T]he speed of decline is comparable to some coups d’états,” a global democracy watchdog wrote.

truthout.org

See also

As Democracy Falters Worldwide, Authoritarians are Winning | Council on Foreign Relations

Between a reduction in freedoms in the U.S. and an uptick in organized collaboration among autocracies around the world, Freedom House’s most recent Freedom in the World report paints a stark image of the future of democracy in 2026.

www.cfr.org

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Now I know the first posts will be the usual Trumpist stupidity how we are not a democracy but a republic ignoring the obvious that we are a representative democracy.

The fact is our freedoms are under assault by the Trump regime and the world clearly sees it as well.

Congress has ceded its authority to Trump, Trump spits on the rule of law, and is actively undermining our election process with lies and more lies.

Brace yourself for the midterms. Expect Trump and his minions do all in their power to cast doubt on its legitimacy.

You know, because that is what all wannabe authoritarians do when they lose.

I have noticed no loss of democracy or anyone’s rights. I have noticed a big upturn of people making huge complaints with no evidence to back up their opinions though.

My religious freedoms my free speech and my choice to govern my own body was attacked by the government in 2021 and 2022.

 

[HikerGuy83]

No, our elections are under assault because Democrats have been gaming it and cheating them. Gaming them with illegal immigration and gerrymandering to gain false representation by counting illegals as citizens and cheating by actually voting for them.
I mean party hacks using dead people and illegals' names to cast fake votes for them.

To them, election under assault means "How dare you only let citizens vote?"

 

[HikerGuy83]

I have noticed a big upturn of people making huge complaints with no evidence to back up their opinions though.

It's like when PMSNBC tried to get the word "dystopian" to catch in the conversation. Their anchors used it continually, often incorrectly.

It is literally all they have.

May Joy Ried please move to Tehran.

 

[HikerGuy83]

My religious freedoms my free speech and my choice to govern my own body was attacked by the government in 2021 and 2022.

 

[BS Filter]

It's the left.

They are incensed that anyone would not accept their word as gospel.

That's why we have Trump. Because of their arrogance.

I'll take him anyday over Clinton, Biden or Harris. All of whom will only push more GDP to DC. Get more rich even though they don't do business. And who would love to do things like surpress free speech by whining about a stupid mob on Jan 6th (like that group could overthrow the government.....are they really that stupid?).

Every 4 years the democrat presidential candidate gets goofier than the last one.

 

[HikerGuy83]

Every 4 years the democrat presidential candidate gets goofier than the last one.

Bill Maher has been telling them for a while.....just how stupid they sound.

But, Bill must be wrong......because...well, the left.....is never wrong.

In fact....it's perfect.

Perfectly stupid.

 

[Robert W]

And now they throw them in the trash and do what the lobbyists want.
It's only been like that since the Reagan days or so. I have family letters where they wrote their Congress people and got replies and effected change in the past.

Lobbyists are quite valuable to the Congress. Primarily they are experts and educate the Congress. Now just one view is not good for congress, so they consult a number of lobbyists to try to understand the issue better, and they often clash with other lobbyists. But it is better than not knowing.

When I was a director at the Real Estate board, I consulted the employees there along with outside experts. When I was also a director for the State association, we were loaded with information on many sides, so I did not ask staff or call outsiders on those issues.

 

[scruffy]

President Donald Trump is dismantling U.S. democracy at an “unprecedented” rate, downgrading the U.S.’s democratic rating on a global scale and plunging the country toward autocracy at a faster rate than autocratic leaders of other countries in the 21st century, the latest report by an international democracy watchdog finds.

Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at Sweden’s Gothenburg University finds in its annual report that Trump’s second term has been characterized by a swift concentration of power in the executive branch that ignores the rule of law, suppresses dissent, and targets civil rights.

Many countries are falling further into autocracy, the report finds. But the U.S. stands out as “an exceptional new autocratizer due to both far-reaching changes in 2025 and their implications for the rest of the world,” the group writes. “The extensive damage already done to American democracy under the second Trump presidency — in just one year — stands out on the world map.”


Trump has achieved in only one year what other countries with similar trends have taken a decade to achieve, the report says.

Trump Is Destroying US Democracy at Unprecedented Rate, Global Watchdog Finds

“[T]he speed of decline is comparable to some coups d’états,” a global democracy watchdog wrote.

truthout.org

See also

As Democracy Falters Worldwide, Authoritarians are Winning | Council on Foreign Relations

Between a reduction in freedoms in the U.S. and an uptick in organized collaboration among autocracies around the world, Freedom House’s most recent Freedom in the World report paints a stark image of the future of democracy in 2026.

www.cfr.org

************************************************************************************

Now I know the first posts will be the usual Trumpist stupidity how we are not a democracy but a republic ignoring the obvious that we are a representative democracy.

The fact is our freedoms are under assault by the Trump regime and the world clearly sees it as well.

Congress has ceded its authority to Trump, Trump spits on the rule of law, and is actively undermining our election process with lies and more lies.

Brace yourself for the midterms. Expect Trump and his minions do all in their power to cast doubt on its legitimacy.

You know, because that is what all wannabe authoritarians do when they lose.

Sveden? What else did you expect from a bunch of socialists?

That socialism stuff is contagious, if it gets on you you'll start to smell funny.

 

[JLW]

How are they under assault? Go ahead....tell us.


Sure, buckwheat. And the examples you've been asked for don't seem to be making it to your posts.

You drinking...again?


Put down the talking points and try to think for once.

There was no right to privacy for 200 years.

Then William O. Douglas pulls it out of the penumbra of his ass.

Which we all said.....was wrong.

The court said, it belongs with the states and they are allowing abortions (without the smokescreen of "right to privacy") according to the wishes of the people as outlined in the Constitution.

Keep trying.

No examples.

Just left wing talking points.

How are our elections under assault?

Let’s see, Trump continues to lie about election fraud. He continues to attack the legitimacy of elections. He has asked states to give his administration their voter rolls. He lies about our elections being full of fraud. He talks of nationalizing elections. He is threatening to cancel the midterms.This is all for starters. And don’t forget Trump instigated 1/6 when the election did not go his https://www.v-dem.net/documents/75/V-Dem_Institute_Democracy_Report_2026_lowres.pdf

You ask how Trump is attacking the press. Trump is consistently suing the press with bogus lawsuits. He is pulling the credentials of reporters for access to government agencies. He has had the FCC threaten to pull the licenses of networks, he has targeted journalist at his rallies. He calls the press enemies of the people. You know just like Stalin.

All those attacks on the press, our voting rights, the judiciary, are attacks on our freedom.


Read this report and you might yet learn something.

https://www.v-dem.net/documents/75/V-Dem_Institute_Democracy_Report_2026_lowres.pdf

 

[Concerned American]

President Donald Trump is dismantling U.S. democracy at an “unprecedented” rate, downgrading the U.S.’s democratic rating on a global scale and plunging the country toward autocracy at a faster rate than autocratic leaders of other countries in the 21st century, the latest report by an international democracy watchdog finds.

Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at Sweden’s Gothenburg University finds in its annual report that Trump’s second term has been characterized by a swift concentration of power in the executive branch that ignores the rule of law, suppresses dissent, and targets civil rights.

Many countries are falling further into autocracy, the report finds. But the U.S. stands out as “an exceptional new autocratizer due to both far-reaching changes in 2025 and their implications for the rest of the world,” the group writes. “The extensive damage already done to American democracy under the second Trump presidency — in just one year — stands out on the world map.”


Trump has achieved in only one year what other countries with similar trends have taken a decade to achieve, the report says.

Trump Is Destroying US Democracy at Unprecedented Rate, Global Watchdog Finds

“[T]he speed of decline is comparable to some coups d’états,” a global democracy watchdog wrote.

truthout.org

See also

As Democracy Falters Worldwide, Authoritarians are Winning | Council on Foreign Relations

Between a reduction in freedoms in the U.S. and an uptick in organized collaboration among autocracies around the world, Freedom House’s most recent Freedom in the World report paints a stark image of the future of democracy in 2026.

www.cfr.org

************************************************************************************

Now I know the first posts will be the usual Trumpist stupidity how we are not a democracy but a republic ignoring the obvious that we are a representative democracy.

The fact is our freedoms are under assault by the Trump regime and the world clearly sees it as well.

Congress has ceded its authority to Trump, Trump spits on the rule of law, and is actively undermining our election process with lies and more lies.

Brace yourself for the midterms. Expect Trump and his minions do all in their power to cast doubt on its legitimacy.

You know, because that is what all wannabe authoritarians do when they lose.

The democrats dismantled this REPUBLIC in 2020.

 

[theHawk]

The fact is our freedoms are under assault by the Trump regime and the world clearly sees it as well.

Congress has ceded its authority to Trump, Trump spits on the rule of law, and is actively undermining our election process with lies and more lies.

Brace yourself for the midterms. Expect Trump and his minions do all in their power to cast doubt on its legitimacy.

What “freedoms” have been taken away? Be specific.


What Constitutional Amendment has been past that changes what powers Congress has, and “ceded” its authority to “Trump”? You people are such drama queens. You just can’t stand that America elected a GOP majority and President. Wouldn’t that make you the one who doesn’t like democracy?

What about the midterms? If Dems win it, then that proves there was never any “attack on democracy”. If Dems lose, you’ll be the ones to quickly cast doubt on the legitimacy of it by claiming President Trump “took away people’s right to vote” because many illegals will not be able to vote.

 

[scruffy]

I knew this would happen. All the usual suspects missing the point of this thread. Call us a democracy or republic or any other term you like, but it is about the erosion of freedoms.

Leave it to Trumpists, formerly known as neocons and Bushies, who gave up certain rights under the patriot act, now voluntarily surrender their privacy, right to vote, and right to be informed by Trump’s attacked on the free press.

We are sliding towards autocracy.

The fact is Trumpists want to be led. That is a fact.

Says the guy who happily voted for Kamala, after she was anointed from above and never won a primary.