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Take a look at this list. Amongst G20 countries there are several from the 1990s.
What's Coming Next in politics
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Snowygerry
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Self-governance is more than just democracy, your ability to be elected is as important as your right to vote. If not you risk being carried along with the majority.
SCOTUS is a "lagging indicator." The justices are appointed in one time and place and serve for life (or at least decades). The longer they are on the bench the further back in time the reasons they were selected mattered. While individual positions may slowly change over time, we find that most retain the views they held when first appointed. New, more "modern" ideas are generally slow to infiltrate the court. Trump has made it a point to choose very young Justices so that their positions will be present for many decades. The best way to speed up SCOTUS to match the demands of what ever is "modern" now, is to impose age and term limits.
Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Jackson are all 60 or younger. It is likely they will serve at least 20 more years. The conservative base of the court is set at 3 to 1. If Alito and Thomas retire while Trump is president, then 2 more conservatives will be in place for 20 more years establishing a 5 Justice conservative majority for decades. In the 2040s the US will have a SCOTUS dominated by Justices with views dominate3d by the MAGA views of the 2020s.
At a guess probably the post apartheid South African one in 1996, though Brazil and Russia were not long before that
Trump is trying to change how the midterm elections are conducted
Many of these endeavors go far beyond typical political persuasion, challenging long-established democratic norms.Today at 6:00 a.m. EST
In this article
- Pushing states to redraw House districts
- Demanding to end mail voting
- Attacking voting machines
- Seeking millions of voters’ private information
- Staffing the administration with election skeptics and deniers
Five years ago, President Donald Trump pressured Republican county election officials, state lawmakers and members of Congress to find him votes after he lost his reelection bid. Now, he’s seeking to change the rules before ballots are cast.
Trump, openly fearful that a Congress controlled by Democrats could investigate him, impeach him and stymie his agenda, is using every tool he can find to try to influence the 2026 midterm elections and, if his party loses, sow doubt in their validity. Many of these endeavors go far beyond typical political persuasion, challenging long-established democratic norms.
They include unprecedented demands that Republican state lawmakers redraw congressional districts before the constitutionally required 10-year schedule, the prosecution of political opponents, a push to toughen voter registration rules and attempts to end the use of voting machines and mail ballots.
The administration has gutted the role of the nation’s cybersecurity agency in protecting elections; stocked the Justice Department, Homeland Security Department and FBI from top to bottom with officials who have denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election; given a White House audience to people who, like the president, promote the lie that he won the 2020 election; sued over state and local election policies that Trump opposes; and called for a new census that excludes noncitizens. The wide-ranging efforts seek to expand on some of the strategies he and his advisers and allies used to try to reverse the 2020 results that culminated in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
It is a long article with much more at the link (likely paywalled though)
