A leading global monitor of democratic governance says the United States, under the Trump administration, has lost its status as a liberal democracy and is undergoing a rapid process of "autocratization."
The report by the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at the University of Gothenburg concluded that democratic institutions in the United States have weakened at an unprecedented pace, placing the country at its lowest level of democratic performance since 1965. Researchers say the shift has occurred faster than similar democratic declines observed in countries such as Hungary, Turkey and Serbia.
