According to Foa and Mounk (2006), the democratic disconnect is caused by fall of trust in major institutions such as the presidency and the Congress. The media is highly ranked among sectors that lack trust. Most citizens approve army ruling which expresses the belief among most Americans that it is impossible to live in a democratic republic. The government is the major stakeholder because of its wider skepticism towards liberal institutions. The citizens have opened to strict interpretations because the establishment of other political parties does increasingly not affect their lives (Foa &Mounk 2016, p.7). The citizens are willing to vote for a leader who is not bothered with elections and parliament.
Question 2. Democracy in decline
The democracy of a particular country declines when the public support is lacking.
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Populists stress that they are the only ones who represent the common will. Populism reflects political institutions that are under crisis and threatened by democracy. Although populism is not a theory of democracy, it is an anti-democratic theory. Thus, populism is intrinsically anti-democratic because it challenges foundations laid for the modern democracy, pluralism, political representation and fails to recognize intermediate institutions. The political view of populists towards people is that they are homogenous and pure morally. People do not have similarities with immorality. Populists view citizens as illegitimate together with their representatives. Populists do not associate with pluralistic institutions such as the parliament because they do not want to interrupt with their uniqueness and public will of their people. Thus, populists do not need the media to pass messages to people directly. The populists prefer spirit of the people than portraying will guided under interests of various groups of people (Muller 2015, p.