backsliding

However, Georgia's increasingly authoritarian government has been accused by the EU and US of democratic backsliding.

Without moral transformation, political changes to laws and leaders would be impermanent and vulnerable to backsliding.

That would be a good sign for Harris, who hopes women's anger at Trump, the Dobbs decision and democratic backsliding will help propel her to be the first woman elected as president.

Ultimately the protests failed and the EU froze Georgia's bid to join the 27-country union, accusing it of democratic backsliding.

The European Union has responded by freezing Georgia's bid to join the EU, accusing it of "democratic backsliding".