In a handful of recent speeches, President Biden has warned that a second Trump term would herald the “end of democracy.” But if anything, Biden is late to the party. The corporate media were doomsaying about democracy’s brutal demise as far back as early 2021, and their rhetoric has only grown more absurd since then.
The most obvious issue with this dire warning, other than its absurd overuse by journalists loyal to the Democratic Party, is that it always entails an almost comically vague, ever-changing definition of “democracy.”
For three years, washed-up security analysts have warned that unless former President Trump goes to prison for his alleged role in January 6, democracy is dead. But that trend started as far back as January of 2021, when MSNBC contributor Jill Wine-Banks pontificated: “It is the end of democracy if we do not…
