US Republicans are starting to look a lot like authoritarian parties in Hungary and Turkey, study finds

The GOP is starting to look a lot like an autocratic party, a large study into political identity has found.

Experts from the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden said the US Republican Party had become more illiberal and populist in recent decades and that its recent retreat from democratic norms has left it resembling authoritarian ruling parties like Hungary's Fidesz and Turkey's AKP. "What we see is that the disrespect of political opponents, the encouragement of violence and also the violation of minority rights ...

BS

AKimCampbell CNN starting to look like hammered shit.

Nice play on words. Turkey is NOT authoritarian at all. You know what is...all the coups USA has attempted around the world to impose our choice of person into other's government.

Yeah, ok. Been on the streets in Seattle nitwit.

What do you mean, starting. For the last 4yrs the Republicans have only thought of themselves. But then, they have had the worst teacher.”America has ALWAYS been great!” It’s “we the people” that have to do better again!

Ya think?

Fake News! What a lie!

Here in the USA too.

TIREDOFTRUMP8 I wonder if marcorubio has seen this. Although his concern is reserved for foreign dictators, not domestic

Exactly, and with SenateGOP letting Trump get away with criminal acts, i.e. impeachment and Trump undermining the Pendleton Act, even less checks and balances... no watchdogs left to say this is wrong. Scary days ahead of this man remains in office.

Watch Unfit!!! It will tell you about the loss of democracy in the US.

Who knew .... yes everyone knew, just Trump being Trump was the slow boil the frog mechanism used to fool many and convince the rest that his intentions were not totalitarian. However sane peoples facts are in your face now! Deal with it !

This is embarrassing, and if it wasn't so dangerous, it would be laughable. Which party supporters do you see every night on TV destroying property, intimidating people to 'swear allegiance,' and perpetuating fear amongst the populace. They 'look a lot like,' Nazis.

lol lol lol lol

''The median governing party in democracies has become more illiberal in recent decades – rising from a score of 0.08 in 1970 to 0.28 in 2019 “This global trend indicates that contemporary threats to democracy typically come from within the government,” says V-Dem Institute''

Starting?

Modern Journalism

Took ya long euff to notice

not at all!!!! thats a bad opinion piece

Lol but you’re still tweeting so I have some doubts

no they’re not. you’re just liberal

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