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A major global study of democracies finds that the US under Trump is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster rate than Hungary and Turkey. https://t.co/QkCwiv4vrU
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A major global study of democracies finds that the US under Trump is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster rate than Hungary and Turkey. https://t.co/QkCwiv4vrU
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