…judicial and legislative constraints on the executive along with the protection of civil liberties and equality before the law.

Pressing X really hard for some of them

No multiparty elections for the executive

Called it

absence of fundamental democratic components such as freedom of expression, freedom of association, and free and fair elections.

Obligatory question “for which class”, people acting for the working class power does not seem to have much of those freedoms in the many blue countries.

Also you lost me at Tiananmen square massacre, even your own western media debunked this one.