Concerns over autocracy in the U.S. continue to grow

Photo: Ice Must Go – Walk Out on Fascism – Free DC – January 20 protest. Photo credit: Geoff Livingston via Flickr. CC BY 4.0 (no modifications). Article by Frank Langfitt. NPR – February 16, 2026.

As the United States heads toward the midterm elections, there are growing concerns among some political scientists that the country has moved even further along the path to some form of autocracy. Staffan I. Lindberg, the founding director of Sweden’s V-Dem Institute, which monitors democracy across the globe, says the U.S. has already crossed the threshold and become an “electoral autocracy.” […]

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