2023 saw a mix of democratic triumphs and challenges, with elections highlighting public discontent and instances of authoritarianism.
In November, the world’s most powerful democracy elected as its next president a man who schemed to overturn its last presidential election. A month later, South Koreans swarmed their legislature to block their president’s attempt to impose martial law.Incumbent parties and leaders were battered in elections that covered 60% of the world’s population, a sign of widespread discontent in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
It also was a sign of democracy working well, as it continued its core function of giving citizens the opportunity to replace the people who govern them.From Asia to Africa to the Americas, it produced examples of democracy working and citizens standing up against attempted coups or authoritarians. At the same time, some of the new regimes ushered in are taking a distinctly authoritarian tack. And the year ends with fresh turmoil in three prominent democracies, Canada, France and Germany.Donald Trump ended his last term trying to overturn his loss to President Joe Biden and rallying an angry crowd of supporters, some of whom then stormed the U.S. Capitol in a violent attempt to block Congress from certifying Biden’s victory. It was a shocking end to the U.S.’s long tradition of peacefully transferring power from one president to the next. Nonetheless, voters in November agreed to give Trump another term in the White House, even as he increasingly embraced authoritarian leaders and promised to seek retribution against those who defended democracy in 2020. Voters didn’t heed warnings about Trump’s threat to democracy and were driven more by frustration at inflation and a surge in migration during Biden’s term. That, of course, is democracy in action: Voters can choose to throw out an incumbent party even if the establishment warns that it’s dangerous. Indeed, the glass half full position on Trump is that his win was entirely democrati
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