Commentary
President Joe Biden claimed that democracy was on the ballot while speaking at Union Station in Washington on Nov. 2. “In a typical year, we are not often faced with the question of whether the vote we cast will preserve democracy or put it at risk. But we are this year.”
The implication from the president and other prominent Democrats is that voting Republican is somehow a vote against democracy. He also called the midterms a “struggle for democracy.”
Obviously, having an election and allowing voters to vote for either party is the definition of democracy. And while the voters are split along party lines, it seems the president is way off base if he believes Americans are losing sleep over the alleged threat to democracy caused by the Republican Party….