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Yes or No, If Yes Please State The Reason Why?

The document asks a series of yes or no questions to determine if a political figure or group rejects democratic norms and institutions. Specifically, it asks if they reject the constitution, endorse anti-democratic measures like canceling elections, or use extraconstitutional means like violence or protests to change the government. It also asks about undermining elections, describing rivals as threats, restricting civil liberties, and praising repression. The purpose is to identify concerning attitudes or statements regarding democracy.

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Yes or No, If Yes Please State The Reason Why?

The document asks a series of yes or no questions to determine if a political figure or group rejects democratic norms and institutions. Specifically, it asks if they reject the constitution, endorse anti-democratic measures like canceling elections, or use extraconstitutional means like violence or protests to change the government. It also asks about undermining elections, describing rivals as threats, restricting civil liberties, and praising repression. The purpose is to identify concerning attitudes or statements regarding democracy.

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Yes or No, If Yes please state the reason why?

Do they reject the Constitution or express a


willingness to violate it?

Do they suggest a need for antidemocratic measure,


such as canceling elections, violating or suspending
the Constitution, banning certain organizations, or
restricting basic civil or political rights?

Do they seek to use (or endorse the use of)


extraconstitutional means to charge the
government, such as military coups, violent
insurrections, or mass protest aimed at forcing a
change in the government?

Do they attempt to undermine the legitimacy of


elections, for example, by refusing to accept
credible electoral results?

Do they describe their rivals as subversive, or


opposed to the existing constitutional order?

Do they claim that their rivals constitute an


existential threat, either to national security or to the
prevailing way of life?

Do they baselessly describe their partisan rivals as


criminals, whose supposed violation of the law (or
potential to do so) disqualifies them from full
participation in the political arena?

Do they baselessly suggest that their rivals are


foreign agents, in that they are secretly working in
alliance with (or the employ of) a foreign
government usually an enemy one?

Do they have any ties to armed gangs, paramilitary


forces, militias, guerrillas, or other organizations that
engage in illicit violence?

Have they or their partisan allies sponsored or


encouraged mob attacks on opponents?

Have they tacitly endorsed violence by their


supporters by refusing to unambiguously condemn it
and punish it?

Have they praised (or refused to condemn) other


significant acts of political violence, either in the past
or elsewhere in the world?

Have they supported laws or policies that restrict


civil liberties, such as expanded libel or defamation
laws or laws restricting protest, criticism of the
government, or certain civic or political
organizations?
Yes or No, If Yes please state the reason why?
Have they threatened to take legal or other punitive
action against critics in rival parties, civil society, or
the media?

Have they praised repressive measures taken by


other governments, either in the past or elsewhere
in the world?

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