Justice Department deletes press releases on charges against Jan. 6 rioters

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Orwellian. They demand people forget what they know, use language to mean its opposite,

have a cult of personality around their leader, and go to war to demand "patriotic" support from the oppressed masses.

Donald Trump and the Republican Party are dismantling American democracy at a record-breaking pace, according to the latest edition of a long-running project tracking the health of democracies across the world.

“The scale and speed of autocratization under the Trump administration are unprecedented in modern times,” write the authors of the V-Dem Institute’s 2026 democracy report. “Under Trump’s presidency the level of democracy in the USA has fallen back to the same level as in 1965.” That was the year the Voting Rights Act was passed, and it was also the year most scholars view as the U.S. finally having become a true democracy.


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But democracy experts have been stunned by the speed of backsliding in the first year of the second Trump term. V-Dem’s data demonstrates that democratic erosion is happening much more rapidly here than it has elsewhere in recent years.

This regression is usually “incremental and often inconspicuous, spanning years or even decades,” the report’s authors write. But “in terms of the speed of autocratization, Trump 2.0 outpaces not only Trump 1.0 but also the most prominent autocrats of the last 25 years,” including Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Turkey’s Recep Erdogan, and Hungary’s Viktor Orbán.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/03/democracy-trump-russia-putin-dictator-report.html

(and that was before the latest attack on the Voting Rights Act)