"As of July 9, 2025, the U.S. is entrenched in a trajectory toward competitive authoritarianism:
Institutional guardrails are being systematically weakened or bypassed.
Civil liberties and minority protections are under sustained attack.
The rule of law is threatened by executive defiance of judicial authority.
Public and expert consensus identifies the U.S. as a “weak democracy” at high risk of further backsliding.
While courts, civil society, and some state governments continue to resist, their capacity to check executive power is diminishing. The U.S. now closely mirrors the patterns of modern electoral autocracies, with only vestigial democratic procedures remaining robust."
(Observations of an ongoing AI query with Perplexity AI on level of democracy in the US)
The world watches America's progress with mixed feelings, as do I. It would be remiss of the memory of my mother if I did not note the disturbing trends that we are seeing. Before she died, she was constantly reminded of her childhood and the dramatic changes she experienced from 1936 onwards, and fearful of the direction our world was taking, in terms of people's rights and attitudes to immigration. Current events globally would have distressed her even more.
I have tried to be more objective, and, with the introduction of AI intelligent searches, started a regular question on Perplexity AI:
"Compare the actions of the current first 4 weeks of the Trump administration with those of 10 governments regarded historically as despotic and 10 regarded as democratic, and estimate which direction the Trump government is currently trending, in about 1000 words with a 100 word summary."
As of July 9, 2025, the U.S. is entrenched in a trajectory toward competitive authoritarianism:
Institutional guardrails are being systematically weakened or bypassed.
Civil liberties and minority protections are under sustained attack.
The rule of law is threatened by executive defiance of judicial authority.
Public and expert consensus identifies the U.S. as a “weak democracy” at high risk of further backsliding.
While courts, civil society, and some state governments continue to resist, their capacity to check executive power is diminishing. The U.S. now closely mirrors the patterns of modern electoral autocracies, with only vestigial democratic procedures remaining robust.
By July 9, 2025, the Trump administration has deepened its authoritarian trajectory, marked by sweeping executive orders, institutional purges, judicial defiance, and aggressive immigration enforcement. Civil liberties, minority rights, and the rule of law face unprecedented erosion. Public concern about democracy is at record highs, with most Americans believing the country is in constitutional crisis. International and scholarly assessments now classify the U.S. as a “weak democracy” trending toward electoral autocracy, closely resembling illiberal regimes like Hungary and Turkey. Institutional resistance endures but is increasingly fragile, and the risk of irreversible democratic backsliding remains acute.
Do check the references that Perplexity AI used.
PS. Simply by writing and making this post public probably precludes me from visiting the US in the near future, according to this search: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/is-there-substantive-exidence-bQcQ75IUReyFAbFSOt5Yvw
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