“In an electoral autocracy, you can vote, you can protest, you can criticize the government — but at a price. That price (…) is the fear of retaliation: losing your job, public funding or a contract. Over time, fear takes hold, and people — including powerful media owners — start to self-censor.”
@revivalcare.bsky.social"If it continues like this, the United States will not score as a democracy when we release [next year's] data"
— Staffan Lindberg, head of the Varieties of Democracy project, run out of Sweden's University of Gothenburg
Source:
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-democracy-report-1.7486317