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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

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\- <https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/who-decides-what-is-democratic/>
- <https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/who-decides-what-is-democratic/>
\- <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViFtzFXR24U>
- <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViFtzFXR24U>
\- <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_backsliding_in_the_United_States>
- <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_backsliding_in_the_United_States>
<https://www.npr.org/2025/11/20/nx-s1-5612438/trump-and-marjorie-taylor-greene-had-a-falling-out-over-epstein-what-changed>
- <https://www.npr.org/2025/11/20/nx-s1-5612438/trump-and-marjorie-taylor-greene-had-a-falling-out-over-epstein-what-changed>
<https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/21/marjorie-taylor-greene-resigns-from-congress-after-clash-with-trump-00665972>
- <https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/21/marjorie-taylor-greene-resigns-from-congress-after-clash-with-trump-00665972>
https://www.ifes.org/pub/Paths-to-Democratic-Resilience-in-an-Era-of-Backsliding/Defining-key-concepts
- https://www.ifes.org/pub/Paths-to-Democratic-Resilience-in-an-Era-of-Backsliding/Defining-key-concepts
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hJHeCqyMRQ
- https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/10/how-independent-is-the-justice-department-now/
- https://www.npr.org/2025/10/01/nx-s1-5558336/trump-says-u-s-military-should-be-used-to-fight-the-enemy-within
- https://www.npr.org/2025/11/28/nx-s1-5620661/trump-administration-continues-push-to-prosecute-prominent-critics