"The establishment spent the past four years panicking, not that a demagogue might undo democracy in the West but that a Republican might remind the West that it is democratic. No, President Trump did not injure or hurt democracy. He simply reminded the establishment that democracy was still the expectation—that even in a republic the citizens are in control."
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"an unelected elite—comprised of corporatists, warmongering statists, Silicon Valley technocrats, coastal oligarchs, Islamofascists, and/or some commixture of the aforementioned oppressors—feels entitled to run our lives and has taken democracy out of the business of running them."
https://amgreatness.com/2021/02/01/the-democratic-injury-davos-against-a-free-west/