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Forefront of democracy, promotion and supporting democracy overseas as well. >> colonel vindman, i asked you last time you were here if the bad guys were winning. my question for you is, can this be turned around? can you recapture a faith in democracy and can you recommit to it? >> im glad to be back with you and i would just be happy to sit here and let fiona talk. its wonderful to hear her speak on these issues. but i think the question is, can we afford to not recapture our democracy and mak...

Results, the more risk we are on a backsliding path that needs to be recovered from right now. >> well, the question is what do the promoters see as the end result here, and are they happy with that end result? it doesnt necessarily mean they will be the ones in power or the ones in charge get away from you quickly. cynthia, i should also mention your book. you are the awe thr of "hate in the homeland," the new global far right. thank you for joining us. carol and garrett, thank you for joining ...

Mainstream view among the enormous class of political immediately there. ship which is incredibly dark and both what it says, and what mitch event. >> that is exactly right, what we are seeing right now is self interested leads and adding billions of dollars broadly in the media and social media and in politics. and they are trying to teach americans to think of themselves as white to reject democracy in the rule of law. to reject the sort of common norms. if they have to share democracy with th...

Something truly dark and awful about the celebration. i think there are people out there who think he was not guilty in a technical legal sense or, you know, he shouldnt have been guilty but its another thing to go from that to celebration of what this person did, and that is -- thats a kind of mainstream view among an enormous class of political and media leadership, which is incredibly dark both in what it says and what message it sends. >> thats exactly right. what were seeing right now is se...

On a backsliding democracy bases and at 150 scholars saying, twilight on democracy of america. if we dont pass it to vote right now because of the way that the particular party taken aim at the concept majority rule. >> when you have the senate rep presenting 41 million americans, the idea that they can control the legislative questions of does it still have one person, one vote. are we still allowed to freely vote? these core questions when you find the whole question of our we are representati...

Basically the united states was listed for the first time as a, quote, backsliding democracy in a report issued by a european think tank. the stockholm-based international institute for democracy referred to the u.s. as the bastion for global democracy but noted that our country fell victim to authoritarian tendencies and was knocked down a significant number of steps on the democratic scale. you will notice that "the washington post" chose to illustrate this with a photo of the insurrectionist ...

The Stockholm-based International IEDA organization says a "visible deterioration" of democratic principles began in the U.S. in 2019.

A Sweden-based think tank has warned that the US and some eastern EU members are facing declines in civil liberties and other freedoms. In Asia, authoritarianism in China is casting an ever-larger shadow.

About 160 countries are divided into three groups: democracies, including "backsliding" democracies, "hybrid" governments, and authoritarian regimes. 

That respect but one thing we have learned since is the 2020 election did not change the fundamental aim driver of this process of deterioration. while we have seen is that far from resolving the issues that far from resolving the issues that are costing this deterioration of the 2020 election has exacerbated some key trends for instance the likelihood that election results will be contested without any kind of evidence of fraud. we have seen the proliferation of efforts to suppress political pa...