Three Years of the Cor­po­rate Media Shriek­ing About the ‘End of Democ­ra­cy’

In speech­es through­out his time in office (and in par­tic­u­lar start­ing with the 2022 midterms), Pres­i­dent Biden has warned a sec­ond Trump term would her­ald the “end of democ­ra­cy.” But if any­thing, Biden is late to the par­ty. The cor­po­rate media were doom­say­ing about democracy’s bru­tal demise as far back as ear­ly 2021, and their rhetoric has only grown more absurd since then.

The most obvi­ous issue with this dire warn­ing, oth­er than its absurd overuse by jour­nal …