The threat to Liberal Democracy

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I’ve started to get a similar feeling—specifically, that certain publications (Foreign Affairs, The Economist, both of which I e subscribed to) and associated modes of thinking treat the rise of “populism” as in itself an undemocratic and threatening phenomenon. This isn’t always explicit, and phrases such as “rules based order” often tend to act as stand-ins for “our way of life, liberalism”. It gets rather annoying when it appears that certain voting preferences are in and of themselves implied to be anti-democratic.