text:  Well, international organizations whose job it is to measure democracy all show already a decline in the level of U.S. democracy since 2016. So Freedom House, which is a U.S.-based NGO, scores countries from a low of zero, North Korea, to a high of 100. I think there are three mostly Scandinavian countries that get a score of 100. A decade ago, the United States had a score of 92, up there with Canada, Japan, U.K., Germany.