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Democratic erosion in the US

The risk of democratic decline in the United States due to the expansion of executive power, institutional politicization, and rhetoric that normalizes exclusionary politics.

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Jan 18, 2026
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What concrete institutional changes would definitively indicate the U.S. had become an authoritarian state?

A definitive shift to authoritarianism would be visible not in rhetoric alone but in concrete, institutional transformations: sustained subordination of the judiciary and electoral machinery to the ex...

Jan 24, 2026

How have U.S. institutions (courts, press, and Congress) responded to alleged democratic erosion under the Trump administration?

institutions have responded unevenly to under : courts have often acted as legal bulwarks against executive overreach, the press has amplified warnings and exposed actions while facing delegitimizatio...