Democracy Under Siege? | City Journal
The Times will keep telling its stories about American democracy being under siege except when its side wins elections even as it continues to undermine democracy with one panic after another; even as social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, sometimes enabled by the federal government itself, pose an actual threat to democracy by manipulating information to favor the progressive worldview. How progressives love their alarms, their procedures, their interminable investigations, their prosecutors, and their congressional committees. How they love, in other words and in the midst of democracy s purportedly looming extinction their self-aggrandizing routines of business as usual.
Lee Siegel.