US swing toward autocracy doesn't have to be permanent - but swinging back to democracy requires vigilance, stamina and elections

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Until and unless the U.S. nurtures and elects political movements and leaders who make lasting democratic changes, I believe the country will continue to lurch back and forth in its pendulum swing.
44% : Since the mid-1960s, when the U.S. expanded voting rights to include its Black citizens, historians and political scientists have generally classified the U.S. as having a democratic regime.
39% : When a political party that does not honor democratic institutions or heed critical democratic norms takes power, political scientists expect the government to shift toward autocratic rule.
38% : All of these areas have significantly degraded in the U.S. over the last few decades due to partisan polarization and political extremism.
20% : From attempting to deny citizenship through birthright to abolishing the U.S. Department of Education, Trump is attacking both the U.S. Constitution and Congress.

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