A new survey spanning 16 nations and regions, most of them U.S. allies, has shown the country's global image rebounded after President Joe Biden succeeded former President Donald Trump, but not a single country believed the United States any longer constituted a good example for democracy.
, but not a single country believed the United States any longer constitutes a good example for democracy.
And while some of this trust has recovered in the few months of Biden's White House, there remained a prevailing attitude that"democracy in the U.S. used to be a good example, but has not been in recent years." These opinions echoed across the Atlantic to Europe, where the sentiment that the U.S. today is not a model democracy was held by 57% in the Netherlands, 56% in Sweden and the United Kingdom, 54% in Germany, Belgium and Spain, 53% in France, 49% in Italy and 45% in Greece, where, as in France and Germany, 27%—the highest response recorded—felt the U.S. had never served as a democratic model.
Across these 16 countries, a majority of 57% believed that the U.S. was no longer the democratic leader it used to be, while 23% felt it never was, and only 17% felt it still is.
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