Lately we've heard a lot of anxious talk about threats to "Our democracy." Here at home, Hillary Clinton surfaced to warn that a Donald Trump win in 2024 "Could be the end of democracy," recycling the tired "Trump is a danger to democracy" cliché.
Abroad, the Biden administration recently convened a virtual Summit for Democracy comprising over a hundred world leaders, many of whose countries, like the Democratic Republic of Congo hardly qualifies as democratic.
This totemic use of the word "Democracy" serves mainly partisan political and ideological interests, rather than a serious understanding of the complex history and dangers of democracy per se.
In terms of our foreign policy, the Summit for Democracy reinforces the disastrous democracy-promotion policies of the last 20 years, which ended so ignominiously in Afghanistan this year.
Our country and Constitution were born in the fierce conflict between those who distrusted democracy for nurturing the tyranny of the masses; and those who wanted more popular rule and local autonomy.
What is more contrary to the limited democracy of the Constitutional order than the progressives' serial assaults on the Bill of Rights, or the corrupt politicization of the DOJ and FBI for the last six years, for which no one has been held accountable? Or what can be more dangerous to real democracy than the nearly year-long abusive incarceration of several hundred January 6 protestors, mostly for misdemeanors?
A true democracy's most important mechanism for checking such misuse of power, regularly scheduled elections, in eleven months may put a stop the progressive Potemkin Democracy from enabling progressive tyranny.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/12/our-potemkin-democracy-bruce-thornton/
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