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Jonathan Chait assures us that 'of course democracy is on the ballot'

As Mollie Hemingway put it earlier today, Democracy isn’t at risk, Democrats are. Democratic candidates across the country have been telling us that “democracy is on the ballot” this November, and President Joe Biden has given not one but two speeches warning that we have a choice between democracy and fascism.

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Jonathan Chait writes the day before the midterms that “of course democracy is on the ballot.” We haven’t read his piece yet, but we’re guessing it goes like this. A lot of the Republicans favored to win tomorrow are “election deniers,” and they will be the precursor to the 2024 presidential election, where they will hand the win to the Republican candidate.

Chait writes:

And it is true that democracy is not on the ballot in the sense of the election being a yes-no referendum on democracy versus dictatorship. But this is because the binary construct between democracy and dictatorship is a figment of the popular imagination. These forms of government exist on a continuum. And it seems highly obvious that the Republican Party’s success in the elections will push the country further along the continuum toward authoritarianism — perhaps just a little or, depending on the unpredictable course of events, perhaps decisively.

Chait looks ahead to 2024, as we suspected, and writes that “most obvious is that the 2024 election may again come down to a congressional vote to authorize the results of the Electoral College or to pick between competing slates of electors.” So, yeah, we pretty much nailed it.

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As for 2020, don’t forget that CBS News’ Major Garrett called it “the greatest success of American democracy in history.”

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Polls (which are all rigged by conservatives, according to Joy Reid) show that the whole “democracy is on the ballot” pitch isn’t moving voters either, which makes it a mystery why they sent out Biden twice to try to sell it.

And now we’re seeing “journalists” getting bold and recoiling at the idea of “both-sidesism.” You can’t just report on the Republicans like they’re a normal political party with different ideas of how to govern. They’re authoritarians through and through, and it’s your job to point that out.

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