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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.

The list of backsliders has spanned the globe from India and South Africa to Hungary, Poland, Mexico — even, in recent years, the United States.

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

Leaders of some of the world’s top climate-change sufferers, do-gooders and backsliders round out the rest of the 40 invitations being delivered Friday.

Because, Chesterton argued, human beings are “naturally backsliders” and human virtue, if left alone, will “rust or rot.”