If there's a problem with the parent comment, it's the tacit assumption that the USA still has some way to go to "stoop to India's level", which smells of Ameri

If there's a problem with the parent comment, it's the tacit assumption that the USA still has some way to go to "stoop to India's level", which smells of American exceptionalism to me. It's not at all clear to me that America is losing the Grand Race to Dictatorship. Modi might be an authoritarian sectarian with worryingly little respect for institutional precedent, but has he reached the level of committing federal crimes on national TV?