Thirty years ago Francis Fukuyama could write about the global ascendancy of democracy, but since then democracy has slipped downward throughout the world: in Russia and other former Soviet states, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, Israel, the Philippines, India, Italy, and many other places. Does the United States belong on this list?
Perspective 98. Backsliding Democracies: Including the United States?
This is such a sad commentary, yet seems spot on.