The Democracy Panic
16th December 2021
All at once, progressives are wailing that an “anti-democratic” movement poses a serious threat to the United States. David Leonhardt of the New York Times averred last Monday that, “An anti-democratic movement, inspired by Donald Trump but much larger than him, is making significant progress” and “has encountered surprisingly little opposition”. A writer in The Atlantic informs his readers that “Trump has built the first American mass political movement in the past century that is ready to fight by any means necessary, including bloodshed, for its cause.”