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Chauncey DeVega

RARE PHOTOS: Expert another bad year for democracy - The Real Truth

Donald Trump | People wave large flags from the top of a tow truck at the kickoff rally for the northeast convoy to DC at an I95 service area in Kennebunkport, Maine, March 2, 2022. - Rally attendees and speakers protest against vaccine mandates, covid treatments and government emergency orders. They claimed their convoy would enter DC. Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images

Global democracy is sick. In the United States, Donald Trump's supporters in the Republican Party continue to steamroll the Democrats and other pro-democracy forces. To say that the latter have for the most part been hapless, uncoordinated and paralyzed by denial is not overstating the case. 

Political scientists and other experts have warned that in the wake of the Trump presidency and the coup attempt of January 2021, the country is now an "anocracy," hovering in limbo between naked authoritarianism and a slowly failing democracy.

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