Obama’s Warnings About Democracy Fading Sound Increasingly Directed Toward The U.S.

By Kevin Liptak, CNN

(CNN) — Speaking with democracy activists recently from Hungary and Poland, former President Barack Obama warned about the “rising wave of authoritarianism sweeping the globe,” even in countries once believed unsusceptible to an erosion of liberties.

“We’re seeing politicians target civil society, undermine freedom of the press, weaponize the justice system,” Obama went on. “And no one is being spared. Even countries that thought they were immune from wholesale assaults on democracy now understand that we’re all part of one struggle.”

Obama didn’t mention his successor by name. But he’s taken an outspoken posture against President Donald Trump throughout a series of public appearances this year, amping up his criticism of Trump’s second term and expressing concern a