The prospects of a post-democratic world

The systemic collapse of American democracy posits the prospects of a post-democratic world – a world in which countries do not have a functioning democratic model to look up to.

The world at large may not have noticed but as I write this article, and in fact ever since the humiliating defeat of Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, the Republican Party has been actively working to dismantle the democratic foundations of the United States by – among other means – systematically limiting people’s voting rights. The more Americans vote, the more reactionary white Republicans feel threatened by the prospect of full democracy and the more aggressive they become in their efforts to quash the will of the people. Just two weeks ago, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell coordinated his Republican colleagues to block the creation of a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the US capitol by a mob of Trump supporters determined to overturn the result of the presidential election.