“Today’s young people have grown up & been #politicized as the age of #polycrisis has emerged, during which forms of #climate, #economic, #technological, & #geopolitical turmoil have grown & reinforced each other to a degree never seen before,” OSF president Mark Malloch Brown wrote. “So, although most people globally still have faith in #democracy, that faith is running on fumes.”

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“What precedes a #democratic breakdown is #political #stalemate & #extreme #dysfunction where there’s a sense that nothing can get done,” said Steven Levitsky (Harvard political scientist & co-author w/ Daniel Ziblatt of ‘Tyranny of the Minority’). “When governments can’t respond in genuine crises, it has a delegitimizing effect, & it reinforces the sense among citizens that we have to resort to other means.”

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Central to the #crisis is the “Trumpist infection,” observed Spanish daily El Pais, which lamented the former president’s “rehabilitation” after the #Jan6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, as well as the worrying implications of dozens of #Republican lawmakers openly or tacitly endorsing #Trump’s well-documented attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

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With the chamber in paralysis, a new battle over #funding the govt looms next month, while boosters of #Ukraine’s war effort fear #DC lawmakers may be unable to authorize crucial new installments of #military #aid.

But the concerns harbored by onlookers abroad go far deeper.

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Many people trace the start of the #conservative #legal movement to 1982, the year of the founding of the #FederalistSociety, which provided a forum for #law students & profs w/conservative ideas to incubate their theories.

But the movement that has had such a profound impact on the courts today — one that involves #money & #politics, more than legal theories or principles — gained steam in the wake of the #CitizensUnited decision.

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The reason is no secret. Since the #SCOTUS overturned #RoeVWade last year, voters across the country, in multiple elections, have approved ballot measures protecting the right to #abortion. A similar election has been scheduled for Nov in Ohio, & legislators are hoping the higher bar for passing amendments will lead to its defeat.

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