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## What is "Democratic Backsliding"?
- Definition: State-led debilitation or elimination of any of the political institutions that sustain an existing democracy
- Cuts to democracy often come wrapped in legality, are procedurally correct
- Happens when institutions that are independent from the executive and are meant to restrain it start enabeling it without question
- Executive acts, that further democratic backsliding are often justified in one of three ways:
- Eliminating threats to national security or public order
- Checking rampant corruption
- Correcting supposed electoral irregularities
- Demnocratic backsliding happens slowly and incrementally
- Three types:
- Democratic erosion:
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## Democratic Backsliding in the US
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- Placing loyalists in important positions, people who disagree with him get fired
- Example: Marjorie Taylor Greene criticised Trump because of his handling of the Epstein Files, the war in Gaza and healthcare subsidies very publicly, was publicly denounced by Trump and called a traitor and had to resign
- Unitary executive theory: The theory that all executive power should be in the presidents hands
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- The institutions, that are supposed to be independent from Trump openly work in a partisan way with Donald Trump
- The DOJ and FBI are lead by Trump-Loyalists and have openly admitted to working with him
- Trump has sent the national guard to democrat-run cities to "fight the enemy from within"
- Trump is publicly investigating and prosecuting his critics