Backsliding on Thames Water
Backsliding on wealth taxes
Backsliding on North Sea drilling,
As the Chancellor said, a continuity government.
Backsliding on wealth taxes
Backsliding on North Sea drilling,
As the Chancellor said, a continuity government.
August 29, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Backsliding on Thames Water
Backsliding on wealth taxes
Backsliding on North Sea drilling,
As the Chancellor said, a continuity government.
Backsliding on wealth taxes
Backsliding on North Sea drilling,
As the Chancellor said, a continuity government.
Reading about democratic backsliding today and wanting make out
September 27, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Reading about democratic backsliding today and wanting make out
New: In a backsliding democracy, ‘public mobilization is the guardrail’
open.substack.com/pub/diplomat...
open.substack.com/pub/diplomat...
In backsliding democracy, ‘public mobilization is the guardrail’
Some excerpts as we head into the weekend.
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
New: In a backsliding democracy, ‘public mobilization is the guardrail’
open.substack.com/pub/diplomat...
open.substack.com/pub/diplomat...
Much vichy so christofascism such backsliding wow
February 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Much vichy so christofascism such backsliding wow
Remember back in February in Munich when @JDVance criticized European countries for “backsliding” on free speech?
September 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Remember back in February in Munich when @JDVance criticized European countries for “backsliding” on free speech?
New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
January 31, 2026 at 3:12 PM
New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social: It's not backsliding, it's a march to dictatorship.
Only @thebulwark.com
Only @thebulwark.com
August 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social: It's not backsliding, it's a march to dictatorship.
Only @thebulwark.com
Only @thebulwark.com
Remember when Rubio criticised Hungary's democratic backsliding?
What changed? Certainly not Hungary's democratic backsliding
What changed? Certainly not Hungary's democratic backsliding
February 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Remember when Rubio criticised Hungary's democratic backsliding?
What changed? Certainly not Hungary's democratic backsliding
What changed? Certainly not Hungary's democratic backsliding
I’m reading a bunch of work on autocracy and democratic backsliding. I’m struck that scholars in this tradition don’t get called “political” or “biased” despite their clear normative stance. Yet, race and gender scholars—who were the canaries in the coal mine for backsliding—do.
May 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I’m reading a bunch of work on autocracy and democratic backsliding. I’m struck that scholars in this tradition don’t get called “political” or “biased” despite their clear normative stance. Yet, race and gender scholars—who were the canaries in the coal mine for backsliding—do.
The backsliding on vaccines is awful but the backsliding on basic germ theory is grim in its own way.
Yes, it's "natural" for humans and pets to eat raw meat. It's also just as "natural" to die from the numerous pathogens in it. That's nature; nature is always trying to kill you and your pet.
Yes, it's "natural" for humans and pets to eat raw meat. It's also just as "natural" to die from the numerous pathogens in it. That's nature; nature is always trying to kill you and your pet.
February 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The backsliding on vaccines is awful but the backsliding on basic germ theory is grim in its own way.
Yes, it's "natural" for humans and pets to eat raw meat. It's also just as "natural" to die from the numerous pathogens in it. That's nature; nature is always trying to kill you and your pet.
Yes, it's "natural" for humans and pets to eat raw meat. It's also just as "natural" to die from the numerous pathogens in it. That's nature; nature is always trying to kill you and your pet.
Pretty disturbing how quick and aggressive the backsliding is
December 17, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Pretty disturbing how quick and aggressive the backsliding is
The US used to export democratic ideals to the rest of the world. Now we export democratic backsliding:
"Yoon's team claims immunity from insurrection charges, citing Trump ruling"
Yoon's team claims immunity from insurrection charges, citing Trump ruling | Yonhap News Agency
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Yonhap) -- The legal team of suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol claimed Frid...
m-en.yna.co.kr
January 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The US used to export democratic ideals to the rest of the world. Now we export democratic backsliding:
New, from Professor Kohei Suziki at Can We Still Govern:
Trump’s assault on civil service systems is part of broader pattern: where there is democratic backsliding, there is also administrative backsliding (see also, Turkey, Hungary and Venezuela). 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/administra...
Trump’s assault on civil service systems is part of broader pattern: where there is democratic backsliding, there is also administrative backsliding (see also, Turkey, Hungary and Venezuela). 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/administra...
Administrative Backsliding Accompanies Democratic Backsliding
Warning signs from other countries about politicization of the administrative decline
donmoynihan.substack.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
New, from Professor Kohei Suziki at Can We Still Govern:
Trump’s assault on civil service systems is part of broader pattern: where there is democratic backsliding, there is also administrative backsliding (see also, Turkey, Hungary and Venezuela). 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/administra...
Trump’s assault on civil service systems is part of broader pattern: where there is democratic backsliding, there is also administrative backsliding (see also, Turkey, Hungary and Venezuela). 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/administra...
Things you should read: @harrylitman.bsky.social has this exceptional piece today harrylitman.substack.com/p/we-are-now...
We Are Now A Backsliding Democracy
Are we destined to become another Hungary?
harrylitman.substack.com
January 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Things you should read: @harrylitman.bsky.social has this exceptional piece today harrylitman.substack.com/p/we-are-now...
american society backsliding so hard that italians are now hispanic
December 4, 2024 at 9:16 PM
american society backsliding so hard that italians are now hispanic
Good piece on the resistance to democratic backsliding.
The Pushback Era: Defending Democracy in an Age of Backsliding
www.salzburgglobal.org
June 16, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Good piece on the resistance to democratic backsliding.
In countries that have successfully reversed democratic backsliding in recent years—from Poland in 2023 to Hungary in 2026—opposition movements made prosecuting those who have broken laws a central campaign issue.
June 18, 2026 at 11:08 PM
In countries that have successfully reversed democratic backsliding in recent years—from Poland in 2023 to Hungary in 2026—opposition movements made prosecuting those who have broken laws a central campaign issue.
The only way to assure individual liberty is to hand unprecedented governmental power to the guy engaged in blatant democratic backsliding
Kavanaugh: Broad delegations to unaccountable agencies are dangerous for individual liberty! We have used the major questions doctrine to prevent agencies from overreaching.
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The only way to assure individual liberty is to hand unprecedented governmental power to the guy engaged in blatant democratic backsliding
Consolidation of power...suppression of dissent...and erosion of checks and balances ...all signs of democratic backsliding. We must protect institutions, or risk losing them. #DefendDemocracy
May 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Consolidation of power...suppression of dissent...and erosion of checks and balances ...all signs of democratic backsliding. We must protect institutions, or risk losing them. #DefendDemocracy
part of democratic backsliding is it becomes tacitly accepted some people never face consequences
New - Nigel Farage has been found by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards to have made 17 standards breaches, adding up to over £380,000 in late declarations.
He’s apologised, so no further investigation (which seems unusual for a breach this large)
He’s apologised, so no further investigation (which seems unusual for a breach this large)
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 AM
part of democratic backsliding is it becomes tacitly accepted some people never face consequences
Frost: When the people can't trust their government, that is the sign of a backsliding democracy. And it's part of the reason why people like Kristi Noem should not be in these positions anymore.
February 14, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Frost: When the people can't trust their government, that is the sign of a backsliding democracy. And it's part of the reason why people like Kristi Noem should not be in these positions anymore.
New book on democratic backsliding finds that it's been misunderstood: "Backsliding is less a result of democracies failing to deliver than of democracies failing to constrain the predatory political ambitions and methods of certain elected leaders."
www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/mis...
www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/mis...
Misunderstanding Democratic Backsliding | Journal of Democracy
If democracies did a better job “delivering” for their citizens, so the thinking goes, people would not be so ready to embrace antidemocratic alternatives. Not so. This conventional wisdom about…
www.journalofdemocracy.org
November 24, 2024 at 8:22 PM
New book on democratic backsliding finds that it's been misunderstood: "Backsliding is less a result of democracies failing to deliver than of democracies failing to constrain the predatory political ambitions and methods of certain elected leaders."
www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/mis...
www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/mis...
It is simply astounding how, in just over two months, the US has almost caught up with two decades of democratic backsliding in Turkey.
I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
March 30, 2025 at 2:23 AM
It is simply astounding how, in just over two months, the US has almost caught up with two decades of democratic backsliding in Turkey.
February 1, 2026 at 6:12 PM