US democracy at risk as corruption threats grow
www.brookings.edu
The new administration has moved quickly to undermine key U.S. anti-corruption protections and guardrails across government.
  • Combating corruption is a key pillar of defending American democracy, as highlighted in the Brookings Democracy Playbook 2025. If unchecked, corruption threatens the U.S. economy, security, and democracy.
  • The new administration has moved quickly to undermine key U.S. anti-corruption protections and guardrails across government.
  • Businesses, policymakers, civil society, media, and citizens have tools to defend against a potentially devastating wave of corruption and other threats to democratic governance.
  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    24 hours ago

    This is like saying the local drug dealer is now selling drugs in broad daylight at the local school parking lot

    They always sold drugs, they just did in secretly in the past … now no one cares or has the power to stop them, so they’ll doing it out in the open now.

    The US has been an undemocratic hell hole for decades … they used to hide under a well marketed mask of democracy … now no one cares or has the power to stop their run away government which is doing whatever they want apologetically