The Drift Toward Democratic Despotism – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

The Biden administration s excessive use of executive orders, regulatory rulemaking power, and lawfare against state governments and other intermediary institutions ; its dictatorial pandemic decrees; and its ongoing efforts to delegitimize the Republican Party as an organization of dangerous neo-fascists, lawless election deniers, and insurrectionists are all manifestations of this country s continuing drift toward democratic despotism, which didn t start with President Joe Biden and will not end with him. The roots of this political phenomenon can be traced to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, but, as the political philosopher James Burnham pointed out, democratic despotism fundamentally springs from the myth of democracy.

via spectator.org

At least it’s good ol’ American-style despotism. Heck, we could even get American totalitarianism, though we’ll have to get a shorter term for it.