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NYT columnist says Biden admin 'running a political operation,' using 'threat to democracy' as 'leverage' (537 hits)

NYT columnist says Biden admin 'running a political operation,' using 'threat to democracy' as 'leverage'
By Hanna Panreck -

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat argued on Saturday that the Biden administration doesn't believe there is a real threat to democracy and that the president was using the "threat" as "leverage" with swing voters.

"You may believe that American democracy is threatened as at no point since the Civil War, dear reader, but they do not. They are running a political operation in which the threat to democracy is leverage, used to keep swing voters onside without having to make difficult concessions to the center or the right," Douthat wrote.

Douthat said President Biden's speech on Thursday could have been given by any Democrat in the Trump era and noted that it came just as Democrats had planned to throw millions in to the New Hampshire Senate primary in an effort to boost a candidate they deem to be unelectable.

"The president could have acknowledged, for instance, that his own party has played some role in undermining faith in American elections, that the Republicans challenging the 2020 result were making a more dangerous use of tactics deployed by Democrats in 2004 and 2016," Douthat wrote.

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