Global Indexes Flag U.S. Democratic Decline

Multiple independent democracy measures (V-Dem, Freedom House, EIU, Polity) and a large Pew survey all registered a worsening picture for U.S. democracy in 2025, including declines on liberal democratic institutions and growing public dissatisfaction. This convergence makes 2025 a clearly identifiable inflection year rather than noise within a single dataset. — If several respected international indices and national polling agree that American democratic health slipped in 2025, that both legitimizes domestic worries and raises the stakes for policy and reform debates about checks, civil liberties and election integrity.