[robin_reala]

The US is at “flawed democracy” in the Economist Democracy Index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index

[edgyquant]

The US is a republic with some democratic institutions, but the economists index isn’t some platonic indicator that gets to define who’s a good government and who isn’t. Several of its higher ranking countries have outright banned extremely popular political parties in recent years.

[tovej]

Care to tell us what the politics of those parties were?

Because a functioning democracy would ban a nazi party.

[nebula8804]

So is France.

[seszett]

And both have a similarly executive-centric form of government where the president and the majority party hold a disproportionate amount of power. Although the US is even worse than France on this regard as far as I know.

I think it makes sense that both are categorised as flawed.

[groundzeros2015]

democracy is a lower form of government in the ancient world

[Andrex]

I wonder who those critics were and what they were motivated by. (Rhetorical)

[refurb]

I wouldn’t assume some any index from a magazine is the end all authority on what a nation state is.

I mean I can start my own magazine and create my own index however I want. Doesn’t mean it’s right.

[hedayet]

I guess if your magazine's index reaches the height to have its wikipedia page, then, although it might not be right, but it will be pretty credible.