Global perceptions that democracy isn’t working in the country that believes it invented it could boost tyranny worldwide
It’s been a difficult week for democracy. In a world chock-full of dictators, authoritarians, populists and predators, the land of the free made a spectacle of itself, and not entirely in a good way.
From China and Russia to the Middle East, anti-democrats laughed scornfully or looked for advantage as the US president trashed his own country’s election, denouncing it as the heist of the century.
