This article in the Washington Post first appeared in my news-feed in 2022, during the middle of President Biden's term of office. The title speaks for itself. The Democratic Party worries about the future of American Democracy, without actually saying outright that the Republican Party will engage in dirty-work in order to take over the government and institute a dictator-for-life, namely Donald Trump.
The article mentions "a group of academics who raised alarms about the dire condition of democracy at home." The article continued that President Biden listened as the "select group of scholars painted the current moment as among the most perilous in modern history. . . . Comparisons were made to the years before the 1860 election when Abraham Lincoln warned that a 'house divided against itself cannot stand'," then in 1940 as President Roosevelt "battled rising domestic sympathy for European fascism".
Curiously, this article does not mention left-wing sympathy in America for Soviet Socialism, and its threat to democracy. More curiously, the article never mentions the Republican Party by name a single time, as it lists the dangers. It leaves the reader to draw his own conclusions. Given the WP's left-leaning readership, it does not have to do more than infer that the Republicans represent the greatest threat. On the other hand, some Democratically-controlled media centers did not leave anything to be inferred.
As a Republican, I resent the insinuation that the Republicans present a greatest risk to democracy, the assault on the Capitol building in January of 2021 notwithstanding. We present no greater a risk to democracy than various left-wing factions like "Black Lives Matter", "Woke", Antifa, or the left-wing bloggers on Facebook who advocate murder and violence against various individuals. Right-wing publications have done a pretty good job exposing that. So the go-for-broke nihilism afflicts both sides.
As I have written many times already, our disunited country no longer deserves the name "United States", any longer, because we are not united. We really should divide the nation along philosophical lines, and take the blame-game completely out of the political arena. But who amongst our leaders wants to give up the exalted status of "Senator", "Congressman", "Governor", or even the more humble status of "Commerce Secretary" or "Postmaster"? Their sequestered lifestyle keeps them out of the reach of the strife-- out of sight, out of mind.
The Washington Post story expressing fear for the American democracy may have persuaded a few Americans to vote Democrat. The smearing of the Republican Party and the Conservative cause worried me and probably many others; but people who claim to know about such things said they never had any doubt that Trump would win a second term.
In a stunning turn of events, The Daily Show's liberal host insisted that the Democratic media organs did protect democracy. Unfortunately, they protected it for the other side. The nation did conduct a free and fair election. It was "stolen," Stewart quipped, "by more people voting for Trump."