What is democracy? Given their fixation with Donald Trump’s supposed threat to that institution, it would seem that the Leftmedia would take the time to actually either educate itself or define the term before running stories that claim democracy is in danger.

Never mind that ours is a republic and not a democracy, yet there is NBC News with another article piling on this latest hot-button Leftmedia topic, seeking to stoke fears of democracy in decline as America progresses toward another presidential election.

The article written by Alexander Smith is titled: “This year will see more elections than ever. But don’t call it a win for democracy.” But it’s the teaser that really leans into the Left’s “get worried” messaging, as it reads: “Democracy in the world has been in decline since 2016. Watchdogs say that just 43 of the 76 elections held this year across the globe will be free and fair.”

So, democracy has been in decline since 2016? Interesting. Of course, that coincides with Donald Trump’s election victory, which Democrat lawmakers and their Leftmedia cohorts falsely claimed was due to Russian election interference, as they incessantly pushed the bogus Trump-Russia collusion hoax.

Is this what Smith is talking about when he tags 2016 as the beginning of the decline in democracy globally? Nope. Rather, he completely avoids that glaring elephant in the room where Washington elites sought to undermine the choice of the American people.

Instead, Smith cites selected “experts” and, in this case, the Economist Intelligence Unit, a research division of the left-leaning Economist Group, which he describes as “a London research group whose yearly ranking system has become a gold standard.” Smith then quotes from a 2022 report from Sweden’s University of Gothenburg that “shows global levels of democracy sliding back and advances made over the past 35 years diminishing.”

Smith presents the claim that of the 76 elections across the globe in 2024, “just 43 will be free and fair.” And then comes the big pivot, as Smith writes, “Arguably, the most pivotal race will come in the U.S.” Really? Why?

His answer boils down to a raging case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Since Trump refused to acknowledge that he lost the 2020 election, and because of “his culpability for the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection,” if he wins the election in 2024, it is a threat to democracy!

Trump has “vowed to root out opponents like ‘vermin,’ saying they should be ‘crushed,’” Smith worries. “And he’s suggested he could use the Justice Department and the FBI to pursue political rivals.”

It’s almost humorous how the Left fails to see the irony of the projection of its own side’s actions. So, when Joe Biden gives multiple speeches over the course of several years in which he labels “MAGA Republicans” as “extremists” that “fan the flames of political violence” — one of them a national primetime address while in front of a Nazi-esque backdrop — this is A-OK. Yet it is the Biden administration that has used the DOJ and the FBI to target political opponents. It began with January 6 defendants but expanded to persecute parents objecting to their schools pushing woke ideology onto their kids or pro-life activists — the latter while at the same time ignoring the litany of pro-abortion activists’ hate crimes.

Furthermore, Smith warns of Trump supposedly being a threat to democracy because he has spoken glowingly of some dictators and wants to use his presidency to “reclaim our democracy from Washington corruption.” Did Trump not achieve some important foreign policy success? Is Washington not corrupt?

As with the way the Left talks of illegal immigration by conflating it with legal immigration and refusing to distinguish the significant difference so as to label conservatives as “anti-immigration,” so too the Left conflates the democratic electoral process with leftist and Democrat Party policies.

How could Americans freely voting for the candidate of their choice be a “threat to democracy”? Well, it isn’t a threat to America’s democratic election process, but it is a threat to the Democrat Party’s hold on power and the furtherance of the Left’s political agenda. This is why Leftmedia outlets like NBC News are intentionally and disingenuously construing an election that would allow Trump or nearly any Republican candidate to win as a threat to democracy.

The irony is that it is democracy that actually threatens the Democrat Party’s aspirations of increasing Washington’s power over Americans.