Commentary
“If fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism,” Ronald Reagan prophesied. More precisely, it’s coming in the name of democracy. That revered word that justifies every political action and policy, “democracy” is now a Trojan horse for its opposite.
The Washington Post recently published an article titled, incredibly, “Democrats’ failure to make 2022 about the threat to democracy.” Can it be argued that any politician has failed to make 2022 about the threat to democracy, least of all the Democrats? The weaponized use of the phrase “a threat to our democracy” is plausible only because Western elites have redefined the meaning of democracy. Under the new dispensation, “democracy” has two meanings: its real and original meaning, rule by the people, and its new meaning, rule by the elites….