‘The United States is showing troubling parallels’

‘Russia was a cautionary tale. Now US risks becoming it.’

Tim Richardson and Anna Nemzer at USA Today

In the U.S., Russia’s “descent into autocracy has long been cited as a cautionary tale by those warning of democratic backsliding,” say Tim Richardson and Anna Nemzer. Now “we risk parts of that history becoming our own.” Russia “hollowed out the country’s once-diverse media landscape, leaving behind only state media.” Similar “dynamics are taking hold here in the United States: the exclusion and punishment of those who scrutinize power, the rewarding of compliant media and the consolidation of influence over government narratives.”