> This is not how politics work in the rest of the world.
Actually, it is. It's just in places that you probably don't want to live in:
> Donald Trump’s Republican party has become more illiberal and retreated from upholding democratic norms in recent years, a study has found, with its rhetoric shifting closer that of authoritarian parties ruling in Turkey, Hungary, Poland and India.
> The research by Sweden-based V-Dem Institute highlights what it calls a “global trend” where “the median governing party in democracies has become more illiberal in recent decades”.
Actually, it is. It's just in places that you probably don't want to live in:
> Donald Trump’s Republican party has become more illiberal and retreated from upholding democratic norms in recent years, a study has found, with its rhetoric shifting closer that of authoritarian parties ruling in Turkey, Hungary, Poland and India.
> The research by Sweden-based V-Dem Institute highlights what it calls a “global trend” where “the median governing party in democracies has become more illiberal in recent decades”.
* https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-electio...
* PDF: https://www.v-dem.net/media/filer_public/b6/55/b6553f85-5c5d...
By 2014 it was the GOP that had become more-right and the median with the Democrats hadn't change much from preceding decades:
* https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/06/yes-pol...
However since then it appears that Democrats have become more-left.