These things have to do with whether democracies follow the rule of law. Civic freedoms tend to go away when democracies become authoritarian regimes.
> USAid didn't even exist before 1961
It was created by Congress in 1961, but destroyed by the ire of one man in 2025, without any Congressional approval. Does it feel like democracy to you?
Are you suggesting what he did was unconstitutional? If so, Congress can (and should) absolutely impeach him for it and make him defend his actions in court. The President is not above the law.
Or did Congress give the President the authority he needed to do exactly what he did? In which case, what is more democratic than a body of democratically elected represetitives voting democratically to pass a law which establishes something under the control (and disgression) of a democratically elected executive?
If our democratically elected representatives in Congress will not impeach the President, then they are evidently content with how he has performed his duties. Of course, the next Congress is free to have a different opinion and proceed with an impeachment. They can even impeach Supreme Court justices who have failed in their duties. If that is what you want, I suggest you vote in accordance with that in the 2026 election.
Also, impeachment is not the only mechanism which members of Congress can use to hold the President accountable. They are free to try and convict the President of criminal misconduct in court.
Congress won't do any of those other actions either, because as mentioned, they're chock-full of sycophants.
Nobody complained when Woodrow Wilson and FDR destroyed the rule of law to remake the federal government. Do you understand that what the progress movement stands for is fundamentally at odds with the constitution, which has for some time only been the de-jure rule of law?
>It was created by Congress in 1961, but destroyed by the ire of one man in 2025, without any Congressional approval. Does it feel like democracy to you?
Who won the election?
I'm guessing you are not black?
Not one of these things has the least to do with civic freedoms.
Did we not have civic freedoms before we had the federal bureaucracy? Before we joined these "international efforts"? Before we sent aid to countries abroad? USAid didn't even exist before 1961 - I dread to imagine what it must have been like to live in America in those dark days before nineteen sixty-one.