The United States Loses Its Status as a Liberal Democracy: ‘Trump Is Aiming for a Dictatorship’

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According to a report by the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, democracy in the world is in decline and in the United States it has "sink like a stone". This was discussed in this week's World Window. The decline of democracyThe V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg publishes an annual report on the state of democracy in the world. The 2026 report states that for the first time in more than half a century, the United Sta…

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For the first time in 50 years, the United States lost the status of "liberal democracy" ?the most evolving model of this form of government ? and became considered a "electoral democracy" by V-Dem, University of Gothenburg, which annually measures the quality of global democracies. Read more (03/18/2026)