America is undergoing a devastating erosion of trust that threatens the foundations of democracy.

Disturbing global trends, ranging from the denial of election results to politically motivated violence, imperil security, peace, and the very foundations of democracy.

Governments around the world have dramatically increased their efforts to manipulate information on social media over the past year.

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But what is that threat, exactly?

Craigslist, a site for classified ads, has significantly changed the way people interact within their local areas.

Independent courts remain centrally important.

Once in office, they stoked widespread discontent to undermine institutional constraints on their power, sideline the opposition, and weaken civil society.

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Democracy is most likely to break down through a series of incremental actions that cumulatively undermine the electoral process, resulting in a presidential election that produces an outcome.

Voters and leaders can help shore up democratic values through strong participation and respect for democratic institutions and electoral results.

Erosion can take different paths, but remedies that reinforce fundamental freedoms are key to reversing the undemocratic tide.

The chinese and russian regimes pioneered the use of surreptitious methods to distort online discussions and suppress dissent more than a decade ago, but the practice has since gone global.

Can democratic backsliding be addressed before democracy reaches a breaking point?

Individuals’ support for democracy is, in short, a necessary condition for engaging collectively in ways that contribute to democratization;

Conversely, a lack of support conditions the willingness to participate in collective actions that undermine democracy where it exists.

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American democracy is under threat.

Is it election theft, minority rule, voter suppression, or all of the above?

Populism becomes a danger to democracy when it seeks to restrict the rights of political, racial, ethnic and other minorities, or simply seeks in general to erode freedom of thought, information, and expression, or the ability of people in society and the media to criticize the elected populist leader.

The presstitutes path to ruin how they undermine democracy.