Us Freedom Went Down Under Trump
Freedom House, which has assigned itself the job of tracking its namesake abstraction in nations around the world, has lowered its rating of U.S. freedom. That rating was done while Donald Trump was still president.
I won’t presume, but will be surprised if our freedom rating doesn’t recover some ground under Joe Biden, if only as a relief rally as Biden reverses some of the Trump policies and practices at which Freedom House looked askance. Freedom House specified many undemocratic or anti-democratic features of the recent Trump years and titled its report “A Leaderless Struggle for Democracy,”