Autocratization in the USA
Under Trump and MAGA's white Christian nationalist crusade, the level of democracy in the US has fallen back to the same level as in 1965.
*NOTE: The following article is crossposted from Redeeming Democracy by Robert P. Jones .
“Autocratization in the USA.”
That’s the title of the section describing America in the new 10th annual Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) report that was just released this month.
In my forthcoming book, Backslide: Reclaiming a Faith and a Nation after the Christian Turn Against Democracy (see below for two …



