How democracies are now ‘backsliding’ in countries from Russia to the United States

The Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is clearly and seriously afflicted by the Trump Derangement Syndrome if they insinuate a similarity between Putin the Terrible and President Trump! What the AAAS presents here is not science but cheap political statements! This is not advancement of science but propaganda and ideology!

Other than this headline they don't have anything to support their assertion in the headline!

Here are the relevant quotes from AAAS:

1. "Even leaders in well-established democracies, such as the United States and India, have adopted authoritarianlike rhetoric. "
2. "Of course, it is also possible that in many countries, citizens will react to democratic backsliding with a shrug, perhaps even cheering the demise of political processes that did not serve their interests, as some have argued is the case in Russia under Vladimir Putin or the United States under Donald Trump ..."

How democracies are now ‘backsliding’ in countries from Russia to the United States | Science | AAAS

Here is the underlying review article:
Democracy’s backsliding in the international environment