Tag: Semi-democracy

The United States Must Be Viewed as a Flawed Democracy at Significant Risk of Transitioning into Dictatorship

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A study of flawed democracies and semi-dictatorships describes a common pattern of events as follows: After having lost an election, the sitting president claims that the election was invalid, whereupon he attempts a coup d’état and his supporters storm the parliament. A few years ago, this sequence of events would have been unthinkable in any… Read more »