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Of course, pressing other countries on democratic regression is that much more complicated because another backslider on the Carnegie list is the United States itself.

No one wants to be labeled a ‘Backslider,’ a person who has turned their back on God and slid back into the cesspit of the System.”

As the president launches the administration’s inaugural Summit for Democracy, determined to show the world democracy can still work, the nation that’s been long considered a shining example is seen by various measures as a backslider.

Locklear compared his life to that of David in the Bible and said he was a “backslider.”

Brazil is on the list as a major economy, but it’s also a major climate backslider under President Jair Bolsonaro, who derailed preservation efforts for the carbon-sucking Amazon and joined Trump in trampling international climate commitments.