Perhaps, but until we actually see a powerless court maybe the system shouldn't be coded worse than Mao or Fujimori on executive constraints.

For some perspective, a +4 overall is on par with Apartheid South Africa, Mugabe's Zimbabwe, and Putin's Russia.

The explanation for the downgrade not aligning with stated criteria was also an issue for post-2020. If the explanations reflect actual criteria used for the US, those criteria for unknown reasons appear to be wholly ignored in many other cases in their dataset.

I'll be more blunt. It's a joke. Trump will be challenged in court, as the legal process would demand. They did this before with Trump and quickly reversed their coding. The US also seems to be the only country that gets this sort of treatment with their autocoup measure.

I got that from a guy at my first ever conference presentation. Dude had just presented on great power warfare…