The United States is currently experiencing a rapid and dangerous degradation of democratic institutions due to the actions of a radical right movement in positions of power.

“So, the people who look at democracies and and their health are looking at the United States right now and are shocked at the degree to which we have fallen away from being a democracy, which by the way was teetering uh has been teetering for a while anyway.”

The current American administration is testing democratic commitments and constitutional protections by politicizing the military and militarizing the police response to protests.

“what you have right now is the American president asserting the authority to use American troops uh and turn them on American civilians exercising their uh first amendment interest in protests. If there are issues with peaceful uh demonstration, keeping it peaceful, that's what law enforcement is th”

The current government is using immigration operations to normalize a national police force that operates without legal constraints, threatening the foundations of the American republic.

“And the way that Trump is solving this problem is by treating ICE as a national police force. And this is this works because the problem of migration they can say is a problem which is everywhere. And so therefore there's a license for ICE to be everywhere in every home in every business in every st”

Destiny believes that American democracy has already experienced significant erosion through the actions of leaders who reject accountability and spread misinformation.

“I think it it already has been in a lot of ways you have a convicted felon who has secured some powers from the Supreme Court that a president or no person in the United States has ever enjoyed before”

Institutional features of the American government currently grant an outsized and minoritarian advantage to rural interests that undermines democratic principles.

“What's unique today is that all of those special levers that give extra clout to less populated places are consolidated in one party. And that has not happened before in our history. And that gives that party, the Republican party, um extra leverage to to really run the show even if a minority of Am”

Democratic norms are in a state of global recession, and the period of relative stability in the West is an exception rather than the norm.

“We've got to recognise that the recession of democracy is a phenomenon. And then the international rule of law is in retreat as well.”