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ICYMI: “The United States is a high-performing democracy, and even improved its performance in indicators of impartial administration in 2020.”

In this file photo taken on January 06, 2021 supporters of US President Donald Trump, including member of the QAnon conspiracy group Jacob Anthony Chansley, aka QAnon Shaman , enter the US Capitol in Washington, DC. - The self-proclaimed"shaman" whose bare chest and horned fur headgear made him the face of the January 6 assault on the US Capitol, was sentenced to 41 months in prison on November 17, 2021.

“A historic turning point came in 2020–21 when former president Donald Trump questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election results in the United States,” the report said. International IDEA bases its assessments on 50 years of democratic indicators in around 160 countries, assigning them to three categories: democracies , “hybrid” governments and authoritarian regimes.

 

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