Flutterby™! : Authoritarian trends in the Republican Party

Starting to? US Republicans are starting to look a lot like authoritarian parties in Hungary and Turkey, study finds

(CNN) The GOP is starting to look a lot like an autocratic party, a large study into political identity has found.

Experts from the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden said the US Republican Party had become more illiberal and populist in recent decades and that its recent retreat from democratic norms has left it resembling authoritarian ruling parties like Hungary's Fidesz and Turkey's AKP.