How can we expect the administration to counter authoritarian consolidation in Turkey when the ruling party is actively and willingly consolidating authoritarianism in the United states? The V. Dem Institute's Democracy Report for 2026 assesses that the slide of autocratization in the United States has been more than twice as steep as Turkey's. The US had the 8th biggest decline in its aggregate freedom score in Freedom House's 2026 report. (02:29–02:42)
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Asserts that the V. Dem Institute reported the U.S. autocratization slide is more than twice as steep as Turkey's.
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