Trump is dismantling our democracy at an unprecedented level

[BackAgain]

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

lol.

Just because you’re willfully gullible doesn’t mean everyone else is.

 

[LeftofLeft]

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.

How has Trump impacted you personally with respect to less of a democracy?

 

[HikerGuy83]

Let’s see, Trump continues to lie about election fraud.

That's "assaulting" something? Seriously?

He continues to attack the legitimacy of elections.

How is he "attacking" it. With words?

He has asked states to give his administration their voter rolls.

He can ask for a trip to Mars too. So what?

He lies about our elections being full of fraud.

And....???

He talks of nationalizing elections.

He talks about a lot of things. Your problem is that you listen to him.

He is threatening to cancel the midterms.

And just how would he do that? He can't.

This is all for starters.

IOW: Nothing at all

And don’t forget Trump instigated 1/6 when the election did not go his way.

You called him a liar and then said this????

You asking how Trump the press is under attack shows you are living under a rock.

And you make some of the statements you do says your head is most of the way up your ass.

Trump is consistently suing the press with bogus lawsuits.

He has that right? Bogus to who? You do realize you are left winger and in spite of the fact that you think you are demigod....you are just a moron.

He is pulling the credentials of reporters for access to government agencies.

Link please.....to something legitimate.

He has had the FCC threaten to pull the licenses of networks, he has targeted journalist at his rallies.

Which, again, he can't do without due process. You really are gullible.

He calls the press enemies of the people.

Could care less. The press has long since lost my attention. They lie and spin like there is no tomorrow. Enemies of the truth is more like it.

You know just like Stalin.

You go to the bathroom.

Just like Stalin.

Was this supposed to prove a point. Hillary Clinton and her "vast right wing conspiracy" was of the same ilk. And the Clintons were masters at stonewalling. Most presidents have not appreciated the press.

BTW: Here's a news flash for you. I knew this going in, but apparently you've failed to catch on. Trump is hyperbolic and full of crap a lot of the time. Or do you really hang on his every tweet?

What he says and what he does are often two different things.

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

His "attacks" on the press have been viewed in a 100 different ways. You have shown nothing except a few lines from a fortune cookie. You have shown no real attacks. When you jail the press. When you destroy their equipment. When you shoot them, then you've attacked them. Otherwise you are just doing what they are doing.

And if you believe what the press prints, your head is farther up your ass than I thought.

Our voting rights are fine. You showed nothing except a load of blather. In fact, many people feel better about the system now than they have for years.

You have lost ZERO freedoms.

This is a high-level third grade argument used by the crackheads of the far left like Al Sharpton.

 

[HikerGuy83]

lol.

Just because you’re willfully gullible doesn’t mean everyone else is.

No, he's a partisan asswipe.

Don't confuse him with reality. It'll hurt his tiny brain.

 

[HikerGuy83]

Read this report and you might yet learn something.


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

Provide a report worth reading.

This is like reading the WHO's ratings on the world's health care systems. Totally bogus and bulls**t.

These clowns are known enemies of the United States and look for opportunities to put down anything that looks like a deviation from the way THEY THINK the world should run.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

 

[EdwinAMartin]

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.

So a bunch of commies and queers claim the US isn't 'democratic'? Hilarious. And only fools would care what they proclaim. These are the same idiots that have made Sweden the rape capital of Europe via allowing mass Muslim immigration.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

The absolute idiocy of the American (and international) Left is hilarious.

The panic. The fear. The paranoia.

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When ALL you can do is laugh at them when they can't read upthread a few posts to their own stupid posts, or use the back arrow to answer their own questions -- post #48.

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[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Nonsense, little lady. You were absent for the entirety of 7th grade civics.

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Depending on how recently he/she/it was in school. It's been a long time since the public "education" system taught civics.

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[norwegen]

Correction: the U.S. is a democratic republic.

Correction: the US is a constitutional republic. The democracy didn't establish the Constitution. The Constitution established the democracy, which was the House of Representatives.