Trump is testing the limits of USA democracy every day, just from the top of my ...

epolanski · 2026-06-05T12:08:30 1780661310

Winner-takes-all democracies all suffer of the same issue.

There's a reason why every single democracy to turn authoritarian in the last 60 years has been presidential or semi-presidential.

The only parliamentary democracy to turn authoritarian since the 60s has been Sri Lanka, there's not a single other example.

chillacy · 2026-06-05T18:36:04 1780684564

I think a reading of Roman history shows the failure modes of a senate so often that I wonder if it was ever supposed to work more than a few hundred years.

verve_rat · 2026-06-05T12:10:20 1780661420

I think you'll find America failed democracy.