Francis Fukuyama, one of the finest political commentators of modern times, emphasised the idea of liberal democracy in his writing by stating, “I argued that liberal democracy may constitute the ‘end of mankind’s ideological evolution’ and the ‘final form of human government.’” He also believes that “at the end of the day, all nations will adopt the idea of liberal democracy to achieve long-lasting peace for the human race.” In the research article “The Clash of Civilizations and the End Game,” he criticised socialism, authoritarian governments, and hybrid democratic values. After World War Two, many scholars believed that the democratic Western system would take over world politics at some point in human evolution. But, in the last few years, we have seen that the world’s political strings are in the hands of authoritative leaders.

In his book Fear of Democracy, the author Noam Chomsky argued that the democracies we have in the US and the West, run by elites, are not liberal democracies; these are false democracies and a shame to the democratic school of thought.

The collapse of the Soviet Union took communism with it in many parts of the world. In the early 1990s, it gave rise to the idea of an international consensus to support democratic governance, such as the rule of law, human rights, and liberal democracy. In that transition of power politics, the world lost the true meaning of liberal democracy. Liberal democracy, or constitutional democracy, is at a crossroads and shrinking around........

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