Most democracy measurement projects and indices have shown a decline in democratic performance for the US over the past decade.

EIU reclassified the country from "full democracy" to "flawed democracy" in 2016.

V-Dem went from "liberal democracy" to "electoral democracy" in 2025.

When you have a wide variety of entities measuring the same trend, it is probably broadly correct.

The hope the good citizenry find a fix.

[To be fair the trend is global unfortunately: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/countries-democracies-aut...]

The US’s democracy has been under fire from foreign nations and corporations for years. It has slowly degraded because of it. What we’re seeing now is the “all at once” portion.