"Over the last two decades,
countries like Turkey, Hungary,
Venezuela and India have given the world a lesson on how democracy can erode into ‘competitive
authoritarianism’ — a system in which elections are still meaningful, but leaders manipulate the rules to their own benefit while systematically violating civil liberties.”
Amanda Taub, former human rights lawyer, The New York Times, March 29, 2025
"US President Donald Trump
appears to have forgotten that Americans fought the Revolutionary War to secure their independence from the British monarchy and establish a government of laws, not of men, so that Americans would never again be subject to the whims of a......