Disheartening for the White House to propagate this willful category error. Unless the administration accepts and treats democracy as an overarching concern that transcends and permeates all levels and areas of the polity, it will be hard to defeat the authoritarian onslaught.
https://twitter.com/peteratlantic/status/1449714166441381889
Conservatives certainly don’t treat democracy as just one issue amongst many: They have made the quest to prevent multiracial, pluralistic democracy their overriding concern. They understand that the struggle over democracy determines the course of the nation.
“We can’t let democracy interfere with white Christian dominance” is what’s animated religious conservatives. “We can’t let democracy interfere with the market (and thus the rule of wealthy white men)” is what libertarians / neoliberals have argued.
Whatever disagreements the different strands of American conservatism may have, what has brought them together is the fear of “too much democracy,” and they are united behind the political project of entrenching their political, social, cultural, and economic dominance.
It would be great if the establishment in America’s sole pro-democracy party could match the Right’s anti-democratic focus and single-minded determination to uphold reactionary rule with an equally strong commitment to finally turn this country into a functioning democracy.
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