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Cleaver and other Kansas City lawmakers have excoriated the effort, framing it as a brazen and undemocratic power grab that would dampen the voting power of Kansas City and its nearby suburbs.
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Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 22 Aug. 2025
Democrats responded that the unprecedented mid-decade gerrymander effort is totally undemocratic.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2025
Republicans have slammed Newsom’s effort as hyperpartisan and undemocratic.
—Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 5 Aug. 2025
At a minimum, success will require acknowledging that past attempts at reconciliation were fundamentally undemocratic.
—Eun A Jo, Foreign Affairs, 23 Nov. 2022
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Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 22 Aug. 2025
Democrats responded that the unprecedented mid-decade gerrymander effort is totally undemocratic.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2025
Republicans have slammed Newsom’s effort as hyperpartisan and undemocratic.
—Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 5 Aug. 2025
At a minimum, success will require acknowledging that past attempts at reconciliation were fundamentally undemocratic.
—Eun A Jo, Foreign Affairs, 23 Nov. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undemocratic
nondemocratic
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Among the consequences will be a shrinking of the civic arena, which could create an opening for nondemocratic actors such as China and Russia to expand their regional influence.—
Omar G. Encarnación,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Sep. 2025
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While a majority of youth in Africa still retain an apparent preference for democracy to other forms of governance, a growing proportion would embrace nondemocratic governance under some circumstances, according to the 2024 African Youth Survey.—
Richard Aidoo,
The Conversation,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Undemocratic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undemocratic. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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