The January/February issue of The Atlantic warns that Donald Trump, in 2024, may bring about a “democratic collapse.” Hillary Clinton, the other day, predicted the end of democracy in 2024 with the re-election of Mr. Trump. And David Leonhardt, in the Pravda-aping New York Times, offers a preview of “America’s Anti-Democratic Movement”
Clearly, the left has started to fire opening salvos of propaganda to mislead the American people into believing that the Republicans — not the Democrats — present the clear and present threat to what Madison, in Federalist No. 57, called the spirit of American freedom.
Writes Leonhardt, quite falsely, “An antidemocratic movement, inspired by former President Donald J. Trump, but much larger than him, is making significant progress.” (Consider this baseless allegation as an expansion of the lie that Mr. Trump inspired racism, or Islamophobia, or misogyny. Simply stated, leftists who are unable to respond with convincing arguments against Trumpian common sense, shriek out in terms of irrational, hysterical, polemics.)
