Thread by @pleasesaveour

the US has already gone through what CIA IDs as the first 2 phases of insurgency — the “pre-insurgency” and “incipient conflict” phases — and only time will tell whether the final phase, “open insurgency,” began with Jan. 6.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

Things deteriorated so dramatically under Trump that the US no longer tech qualifies as a democracy. Citing a data set that the CIA task force has found to be most helpful in predicting instability and violence —the US is now an #anocracy btwn a democracy and an autocratic state.

U.S. democracy had received the Polity index’s top score of 10, or close to it, for much of its history. But in the five years of the Trump era, it tumbled precipitously into the anocracy zone; by the end of his presidency, the U.S. score had fallen to a 5

“We are no longer the world’s oldest continuous democracy,” Walter writes. “That honor is now held by Switzerland, followed by New Zealand, and then Canada. We are no longer a peer to nations like Canada, Costa Rica, and Japan, which are all rated a +10 on the Polity index.”

Polity Index: Democracy cannot be defended by force; it is enforced through accountability.

systemicpeace.org/index.html

Anocracy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anocracy