There has been a real rhetorical change from the white house, not or that much action. The summit for democracies has been a case study of that. It does not feel at this stage that something very meaningful and concrete is going to come out of it. Finally, byden had promised to renew the spirit of democracy in the united states and around h world. Now that promise was probably one which he was never going to be able to keep. And yet we must face just to what extent that is now the case. To what extent republican attempts to undermine the integrity of election 20 24 are making america look like a horror story?