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TheShadow

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He's closed the border, he's given tax breaks to most Americans, he's passed the Abortion thingy to the States where it actually belongs, (not unlike the Provinces in Canada & the healthcare system), he's deporting criminal illegals - ya, I guess you're right. He hasn't done a damn thing!! My bad!!
 
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petros

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And there's even MORE than he's done!! You can laugh all you like but it's true. I know, I know, orange man bad. That's too funny!!
Where is a well thought out reply with examples?

American't is rapidly sliding towards a dictatorship with strings pulled by a foreign and domestic terrorist cult. NOBODY BENEFiTS

Most scholars and democracy monitors don't say the U.S. is a dictatorship, but many say it's backsliding faster than almost any democracy in recent history. This is contested, and the answer depends partly on how you define the term.
What the main indices say:
Pew's April 2026 roundup of V-Dem, Freedom House and the Economist Intelligence Unit found that all three showed a decline in U.S. democratic health in 2025. Freedom House still rates the U.S. as "free," with a score of 81, down 3 points. (pewresearch)
V-Dem's 2026 report dropped the U.S. from 20th to 51st on its Liberal Democracy Index, its largest one-year fall for the country. It still classifies the U.S. as a democracy, though, not an autocracy. (Substack)
International IDEA reported no downgrade, and Freedom House's country profile notes strains but no change in overall status. Indices don't agree on how severe the decline is. (lenz)
Where the disagreement lies: Critics of the current direction point to the concentration of power in the presidency and weakened checks from Congress and the courts. V-Dem says legislative constraints on the executive fell to their lowest level in over 100 years. Others argue that these indices overstate the problem, or that vigorous contestation, elections, courts and a free press are still working. The Cato Institute, for example, argues that V-Dem may overstate the U.S. decline. (Substack) (lenz)
A dictatorship usually means no meaningful elections or opposition, and the U.S. hasn't clearly crossed that line. Whether it's on a path toward it is the real dispute. If you tell me which aspects worry you (elections, courts, press freedom), I can go into what the evidence and each side say.