Trump is dismantling democracy at 'unprecedented' speed, global report finds

Before he was elected to a second term, former President Donald Trump hugged and kissed the U.S. flag as he spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md., in 2024.

Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat.

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