Saturday, May 16, 2026

Thanks to a cowering, subservient, do-nothing Congress, United States is halfway there to becoming an autocracy

 
Headline:  New York Times, 5/11/2026

New York Times Editorial Board opines:
The New York Times editorial board is tracking 12 categories of democratic erosion in the United States, based on historical patterns and interviews with experts. Our index places the United States on a scale of 0 to 10 for each category. Zero represents the United States before Mr. Trump began his second term — not perfect, surely, but one of the world’s healthiest democracies. Ten represents the condition in a true autocracy, such as China, Iran and Russia. Based on the war with Iran, we are moving our assessment of one of the categories — bypassing the legislature — up one notch, to Level 5.

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